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Gardens of Grief

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I highly recommend both Sahg I and Sahg II if you love early Sabbath. I also highly recommend Graveyard's self-titled album and all three of Witchcraft's albums. Riff-heavy music, Ozzy-sounding vocalists, but all three bands add their own unique sounds to the Sabbath sound. If you want something that rocks in a similar vein, but goes to newer territory, check out both albums by Witch (not to be confused with Witchcraft). They are both excellent albums.

Amazon has this album listed as a release by the band SAHG, however the album pictured is actually a release by AT THE GATES. I'm fairly certain SAHG only has put out two albums to date (I) and (II). I hear they're working on (III) right now. This demo from ATG is still great, just make sure you know who/what this is before you buy it.

Not the most original thing out there, Sahg's music consists of playing a somewhat updated version of Black Sabbath with some ferocity thrown in. But where bands like Electric Wizard have succeeded, this is where Sahg's music fails. It simply doesn't grab your attention. Sure, the standard and in-your-face nature of the compositions here might win fans of the old-school doom bands, but doom bands- being limited to the options they have-often struggle to create something that will expand an already limited sub-genre. Sahg does create at times some good moments in their music, but the rest of the music is simply stuff we've heard before. Doom fans will most likely devour this.