Friday Morning Metal – Gygax – Draw Breath

So I guess Gypsyhawk isn’t a band anymore, which is pretty unfortunate. I saw them open for Alestorm a few years ago and they were amazing. I think I posted a link to one of their videos back then. They were a 70’s rawk/proto metal sounding band, with songs a bit focused on things like D&D & wizards & stuff. Also when they played live they brought their own sound guy and played through their own Marshall stacks instead of using El Corazon’s system. Which meant they sounded clean, balanced, and not the wall of sound that tends to emanate from El Corazon’s speakers.

But members of the band have created a new band, Gygax, with the similar kind of early 70s rawk fused with nerditry that is amazing! I’ve only heard Draw Breath so far, and it sounds like something that’d play on a jukebox in a dirty biker bar in a 1980’s Cannon Film. Like it’d start playing either before the female lead dances next to a pool table, or right as Jean Claude Van Damme starts beating jabronis with his mullet.

The harmonized guitars are fantastic, especially during the chorus. I can always go for guitarmonies. And the vocalist sounds like the same dude from Gypsyhawk, with a kind of gravelly dirty rawk voice that is necessary to the sound.

In all this is a really tight band and I am looking forward to what their whole album sounds like.

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