As well as being the founder and bassist of Progeland and playing in both Corvus Stone and Voice of The Enslaved, multi-instrumentalist Petri Lindström has also released two solo albums. For the 2016 debut he wanted to provide a tribute to Black Sabbath by performing original songs in the style of their sound from the early Seventies, while the 2020 follow-up finds him undertaking a somewhat similar approach, except that this time he has been influenced by the music of Enrico Morricone, especially the soundtrack of ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’. Somehow he has captured that sound and feel, especially on “Rosa’s Song” which not only features a church bell but also kettle drums and one can “see” the man with no name walking through the dusty main street with a cigarillo in his mouth just itching to shoot the next person who does him wrong.
Petri provides all instruments, and the result is an album which really does sound as if it is a soundtrack to the Westerns I grew up watching. I remember my Economics teacher apologising for not marking our homework when he should have, but ‘High Plains Drifter’ had been on TV and after Eastwood had shot loads of people in the first five minutes he decided he was going to watch that instead. This album truly evokes that time period, and anyone who loves those movies is going to find a great deal here to enjoy. 7/10 by Kev Rowland
