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1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Mediocre overall May 04, 2008
There's one rockin song here - Lay Down - which is from the Guitar Hero III song track. I got the CD hoping for more of the same, but all the rest of it is pretty forgettable.
Bring the hammer down! Apr 20, 2008
Priestess rocks!
Thats all I wanted to post because its all you need to know to enjoy this album, but there's more to tell.
Priestess plays loud, fast, pummeling, 70's inspired hard rock. Think Wolfmother, only, you know... good.
While Wolfmother thrilled us all (SARCASM) with their annoying vocals, painfully banal lyrics and embarassingly rudimentary instrumentation that only made you think of how much worse they are than the bands they're shamelessly ripping off, Priestess manages to the retro-rock thing RIGHT.
They have the thick, fuzzed out guitars, they have the energy, and they have the SONGS!
Yes, this is an album with songs that hit very hard and (usually) very fast, and is filled with cool riffs and big BIG choruses! And the singer sounds like a 70's long haired screamer! Way better than that Wolfmother guy (though a eunuch with throat cancer sings better than the Wolfmother guy). Plus, they actually know how to play their instruments! You actually get guitar solos!
But the thing that really makes me love this album is how unpretentious it seems. Priestess is pretty down to earth, and that saves them from falling into all those bad habits that too many classic 70's rock albums fall prey too.
You're not going to get bloated, unending guitar solos (just short, susinct ENJOYABLE ones), or a singer who is so self-important that he ruins songs with his ego (I'm looking at you, Robert Plant), or any stupid sword and sorcery "mystical" lyrics, or any long, 15-minute space jams.
Nope, none of that.
Just good, intense, classic sounding rock, mostly. The last track is a moody, bouncy little alt-rock number about vampires that wouldn't sound out of place on a Horrorpops album, but the REST is classic sounding rock.
Are you having trouble deciding what to put on the stereo as you hop in your Camaro and peel out of the parking lot at your high school? How about "Hello Master" by Priestess?
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Stole the show... Apr 29, 2007
Priestess was the second warmer for Mastodon at a small theater in Portland OR where I heard them for the first time. A small pudgy filthy guy with a gibson sg strapped on him thanked Mastodon for a great tour and told us all how lucky we were to see them in such a small venue right as Blood Mountain was breaking loose.
I honestly didn't know what to expect from them as Mouth for an Architect had opened up so the tone was set for some serious post-metal noise when all of a sudden these four guys cracked open "Lay Down" and lit the place on fire. The response from the crowd was deafening and certain, they had just made 600 of their biggest fans.
You could say "riff-rock" or make comparisons to Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, or what have you but they deliver fist pumping, wind in your hair rock, plain and simple.
It is also worth a mention that they brought homage to Spinal Tap as well. These guys are un-abashedly rock n' roll from their riff and solo rides to the wrap around mutton chop mustache, they are the package, the real deal. Everything about them reels you in and then before you know it you just threw a full beer across the crowd.
The truth of the matter is that I feel lucky I got to see Priestess in such a small venue. These guys will (or should) be headliners on a huge stage someday.
I have to echoe that their album is great but it PALES in comparison to seeing them live.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Break Out Those Denim Bell Bottoms Apr 21, 2007
Priestess Rawks!!! There, I feel better. After the sucess of Wolfmother, The White Stripes, etc. I suppose it was inevitable that a wave of "retro" music was coming our way. One things is for sure, Priestess have what it takes to make this idea work. Much like Wolfmother's latest release, this album could have been in the charts circa 1974. Think Jethro Tull by way of Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy. Is it cool? Hell yeah! this disc is actually the most fun I've had with a rock album in a long time...
What I love about this band is the fact that they seem to pay homage to this style of music, although sometimes with the tongue firmly planted in cheek. Not too serious or stiff, but not an asinine parody like The Darkness. This music is meant to be listened to with beer in hand. Fun stuff, recommended.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great CD, but it pales in comparison to live show Mar 31, 2007
I bought this CD at a Priestess show in Seattle. They wrecked it that night, the band is amazing. I don't think I have ever been as disappointed to see a group stop playing. There's a lot of dynamics on stage. The drummer is a show by himself and the rest of the group emits the stoner metal image to a t.
This album, though? It's kind of like buying a postcard to something that's a visual spectacle. The picture on the postcard reminds you of how amazing your vacation was, and you get a taste of how gorgeous, say, the Grand Canyon was, but it's just not like being there. Their record is under-produced, sadly, to the point where it comes off as a good 4-track recording. Much like when you see a band set up for TV, the vocals come through louder and independent of the instruments, and the music is all leveled the same so you don't get the virtuoso elements from any of the musicians.
I might not like this whole CD as much if I didn't see the show, but there are some good songs that rank highly in their genre. They're more 70's soul metal than they are 4/4 Mastodon technical metal, which is awesome for me.
Again, this is an amazing band that underproduced themselves on this album. They tore up the club where I saw them. I said to my friend after their first song: "I wouldn't mind if they just played that same song another 5 times, this is awesome", because it was. If you like their record, look on YouTube for live shows and you'll be way impressed.
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