5/29/2023 0 Comments The magic circle endings![]() ![]() Ha-Na heads to the police station to file a report of her abuse, sporting nasty bruises across her neck where Ri-Eul choked her out. To make matters worse, her personal items have been found near the theme park as well. The police are waiting for DNA test results to come in but it would appear, according to the dental records, that it’s Ha-Yoon. As the riffs crescendo below him, Radigan lets loose:įor an album about death, Departed Souls leaves the listener feeling peaceful and uplifted.Episode 6 of The Sound of Magic begins with police being called down to the reservoir where a dead body has been found. After that, the last song, “Hypnotized,” builds slowly, with Radigan coming in at top volume and power, and leading the listener on a roller coaster ride of emotions. The band gives the listener a bit of a rest on “Bird City Blues,” a lush instrumental that clocks in at barely over a minute long, and includes the sound of rolling thunder in the distance. Radigan croons about “haunting shadows,” a “glowing eventide” and “silhouetted memories.” It’s a very fitting divider for the album, which then becomes more progressive and a little less doomy, evoking Deep Purple more than Black Sabbath. The album begins to unfold in an unexpected, but welcome way on the fourth song, “A Day Will Dawn Without Nightmares.” After a spacey intro, the song floats into an exotic, colorful melody with tablas and a retro-organ riff. Several songs, including “Departed Souls” and “Valley of the Lepers,” follow this recipe. Magic Circle is a band that you can count on to mix things up. It’s not unusual for them to be plodding on with a Sabbath-tinged riff, only to stop and indulge their inner Iron Maiden. Guitarists Chris Corry and Renato Montenegro, trade evocative melodies, searing dual leads and chugging rhythms, often within the same song. The album opens with its title song, a Trouble-like medium-tempo head-bobber in which Radigan uses the wheel of the seasons to mourn a passing life.īut Radigan is hardly the band’s only star. His lyrics are poetic and kaleidoscopic, frequently invoking the seasons and the forces of nature as a sort of general lament on the plight of humanity. There’s a good reason why he is often compared to the likes of Ronnie James Dio and Ian Gillan. A key reason for this is singer Brendan Radigan’s powerful voice, which could take the most mundane material and elevate it to the ethereal. This is an album about death and endings, but the result is more bittersweet than maudlin, hopeful rather than despairing. However, Magic Circle is pretty blunt with their subject matter and artwork, which features a verdant, overgrown cemetery shown in the golden light of sunset. But on this latest album, the band looks further beyond its doomy foundations into the psychedelic world of prog to give us a powerfully mournful ode to those who have departed - either by leaving this life or by leaving our lives. Due to obligations with several other bands (Innumerable Forms, Sumerlands, Devil’s Dare, Stone Dagger, Lifeless Dark, Missionary Work, Pagan Altar), they rarely play live, and they still eschew social media. More than three years after electrifying the metal community with Journey Blind, an expertly crafted blend of doom, traditional metal and classic rock, Boston’s somewhat mysterious Magic Circle, have returned with Departed Souls. ![]()
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