Baleful Creed Seismic Shifter Album Review
Second albums always are difficult beasts for any band, but even more so when they have undergone a seismic shift (sic) in the personnel department in the period between. Baleful Creed ’s self-titled debut album, released back in 2013, was a fairly Richter registering event in its own right, with a collection of tunes more than capable of levelling a middle-sized Far Eastern dictatorship merely by turning the volume knob on the band’s Marshall stacks up a fraction of a notch: it was a heavy-as-fuck slice of old school doom-meets-stoner groove that had some fairly immense moments – such as the titanic (sic, again) ‘Autumn Leaves’… oh, that is one beauteous song… In the intervening four years, the band have had their fair share of personal and collective struggles, ultimately resulting in the departure of their entire original rhythm section. But, slowly they rebuilt: like their music, Baleful Creed like to be considered and not rush headlong into things. Now, the reconstructio...