“Lupi Amoris” offers a one-way trip through wide-open spaces and deep forests. Its songs wind and deposit heavy flotsam like a mighty musical stream, pushing through swirling rapids, cutting through riff-mountains, and swelling with addictive grooves. Riding atop the sonic waves, singer and bass player High Priestess Nighthawk belts powerfully over the roaring din.
Although HEAVY TEMPLE leverage all the trappings of traditionally male-oriented metal (to the point that their sound could proudly sport a full beard), the powerful presence of frontwoman and sole remaining founding member High Priestess Nighthawk merges their glorious heaviness with a strong thematic line of feminine strength. “Lupi Amoris” is Latin for “Wolves of Love,” and finds the Philly outfit aligning with a Red Riding Hood who is freed from the traditional bonds of what’s expected. Proving that it’s quite possible to hammer out gargantuan stoner doom and still say something about life’s realities, HEAVY TEMPLE make a fierce and much-needed statement with “Lupi Amoris”, and at these volumes, the world is guaranteed to hear it.
Tracklisting:
- A Desert Through the Trees
- The Wolf
- The Maiden
- Isabella (with Unrelenting Fangs)
- Howling of a Prothalamion
Heavy Temple – The Maiden
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