Heron marked blade series#
Of course, my enjoyment of them is certainly aided by the fact that their thematic foci are very much in lock step with my own interests any fan of JRPGs should have no problem picking up the reference in the band's name to the 1995 classic Chrono Trigger, just as any fan of Robert Jordan's high fantasy series The Wheel of Time (of which I consider myself among the foremost) will quickly notice that the last four songs on the album are about the series, specifically the second volume, The Great Hunt, which, by chance, happens to be my personal favorite. When one is accustomed to slogging through the dregs of any genre (in my case it has most often been heavy/power metal), any band with a shred of talent or originality is most welcome, and stumbling over something on the level of Lavos Beckon is a one in a thousand sort of occurrence, at most. As far as I'm concerned, having listened to their sole full-length album, 2012's Wars Fought With the Heron Marked Blade several times since discovering it about six months ago, the music these gentlemen have created is certainly a diamond in the rough. Whatever one might be inclined to think of them, Lavos Beckon are surely an oddity - the Philippines are hardly a metal hub to begin with, and when you narrow that down to a band playing progressive/USPM.well, in this case they are literally one of a kind in fact, they are, evidently, one of only two bands in the Philippines playing power metal of any sort, according to this site's advanced search feature.
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