Occultation – Three & Seven (Profound Lore, 2012)

I don’t get the “female fronted occult rock” trend that has come out of the metal underground in the past few years.  To these ears, there’s nothing even remotely evil, let alone “occult” about ripping off Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac and Heart.  Okay, this is the part where someone brings up Coven and I roll my eyes.  I’m not saying the music is particularly bad, it just isn’t my thing, and it definitely isn’t Satanic. I mean, isn’t it really just revisiting the hippie-dippy horseshit that early heavy metal set out to stomp to bits at the end of the ’60′s, only with a quasi-diabolic lyrical bent?
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