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Somewhere out on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, just below the Artic Circle, lies Newfoundland.  It is here, a thousand miles from the trendy salons and boutiques of New York or London, that sHEAVY come from and here the riff is all.

With the eventual funeral of Stoner Rock now almost long since forgotten, few bands from that period have maintained the support, or indeed motivation, to overcome the mourning of it’s fated passing. Listening to Republic, it seems as though Stoner Rock didn’t even happen, as these guys appear totally unaffected by it’s demise.

sHEAVY have been doing their own thing since 1993. In 1998 they first hooked up with Rise Above records in the UK for the classic album “The Electric Sleep” described as “the best Black Sabbath album in 25 years”. Hyperbole perhaps but, in an age when former heroes can become tabloid fodder and play at the Queens birthday it’s nice to know that someone still remembers what it really meant.
 
Republic  (the 4th sHEAVY album to be issued by Rise Above) is a refreshing blast of killer grooves and the sort of rich high cholesterol riffs thick enough to sustain any poor lost soul stuck in the icy wastelands of modern identikit nu/screamo/emo/metalcore/ whatever bands.

OK, it’s simply impossible to ignore the uncanny resemblance in the vocal shrieking of Mr Stephen Hennessey, to that of the POD himself, Mr Ozzy Osborne. So much so in fact, that the dark lord of Black Sabbath himself, Tony Iommi, actually invited Hennessey to audition for an aborted ‘in between Sabbath project’, several years back.

The infectious melodies that make up ‘Hangman’, will no doubt lead to an abundance of file sharers and web geeks alike claiming to have unearthed another long lost & unreleased Sabbath gem. As is what happened with the aforementioned title track of the bands debut Rise Above album; The Electric Sleep. It’s a track that has, for several years now, confused and perplexed even the most devoted of Sabbath fans.
 
On sHeavy’s previous album, the very successful ‘Synchronized’, they even enlisted the services of legendary Black Sabbath producer Mike Butcher, to just go that extra mile. It worked with glorious results.

This time round, they took on board the knob melting skills of San Francisco Sludge Meister Billy Anderson, who has added a deeper foundation to the rock solid structures of songs such as ‘Standing At The Edge Of The World’, an epic odyssey, which comes off sounding like Kyuss meeting Motorhead whilst listening to Blizzard Of Oz, en route to a 1989 Trouble rehearsal.

Republic shows us all that Organic Rock is just as Volcanic as it always!

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