Holistic
music writing! Twinned guitars out every orifice! A chick vocalist that
isn't used as some sort of marketing gimmick! A song about fucking Krondor! All these amazing things somehow coming from the hellhole that is Texas!
Blackholicus
is clearly rooted in an old school heavy metal vibe (without feeling
"retro"), but they also liberally borrow from prog and punk, then mix it
all together to make something Slough Feg would be proud of. Each song
is nothing more than a springboard for Nelson and Chiera to build off
of for minutes of guitar duets.