Royal Thunder - Scoot Inn, SXSW, Austin TX - March 16, 2013


[Atlanta, GA] Fantastic. Of course, the powerful female vocals excite me. I had summed them up as a Black Sabbath cover band in my SXSW preview notes but that wasn’t really accurate. They are a weird amalgam of prog metal and goth country folk weirdness … but I’m lying… the guys’ beards and guitar precision were just distracting … in that this band didn’t make sense insofar as how they looked. The lead singer hunched over her guitar in a black lace dress screaming and wailing broke my heart the whole set. Their sound is kind of a rollicking prog metal with passionate vocals. I was entranced. And there were some Black Sabbath moments.


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