We have missed a lot The Wizards In these six years, which had passed since his previous “Rise of the Serpent”with which they confirmed their level and status in state metal, after the great feelings it left us “Full Moon in Scorpio”the album that put them in the place they deserved for quality.
So, after a pandemic that cut off the dizzying and ascending pace they had been going, now comes “The Exit Garden”, fourth album by the Bilbao band, published again by the German label HR Records, and in which they continue to travel their path within classic heavy and hard rock.
On this occasion, they have dispensed with Dean Rispler, to carry out the production work themselves, in the small studios of Slippery Studios in Medina de Pomar, with excellent results. Hard and resounding sounds in an album with long developments, especially in songs like the opening one, which gives the album its title: “The Exit Garden”, or “Questions”, with a slow introduction that accelerates until giving us the best moments of the lot , with the dueling guitars and that air of heavy classic that is breathed towards the second half of the song. Among the most extensive compositions, there is also “Full Moon Scorpio”, the self-tribute that the band wanted to make, remembering that golden era when they released the album of the same name, in which, curiously, there was no song with that title… little crazy things that they give us – and are – given The Wizards.
Another of the star themes of “The Exit Garden” is, without a doubt, “Oniros” that, leaving the usual parameters of their previous albums, provides some initial dreamlike melodies, to develop into a guitar path closer to stoner, and that does not clash with the usual and very particular style of a band with an overwhelming personality of his own.
The most classic hard rock is found in “Holy mountain Mind”, and in “Equinox of fire”, while there is also room for darker compositions such as “Crawling Knights”, a heavy rock that precedes “Dawn of another life”, with which they close, in a naked format, without bass or drums, an outstanding album, in which the people of Bilbao, without complicating themselves at all with unnecessary arrangements, once again hit the nail on the head, in the complicated mission, in which they have been working more than a decade, of creating a group with its own identity, without straying too far from a line marked by its passion for the most classic sounds.
The Exit Garden de THE WIZARDS