Howling Giant and Sergeant Thunderhoof released new split LP from Turned To Stone series, entitled »Masamune & Muramasa«

Howling Giant and Sergeant Thunderhoof just released new split LP from Turned To Stone series, entitled »Masamune & Muramasa«, on August 7th, 2020 via Ripple Music.

Turned To Stone Chapter 2 Tracklist:
01. Howling Giant – Masamune
02. Sergeant Thunderhoof – Muramasa

From Ripple Music:

Chapter two of Ripple’s new Turned To Stone series presents the story of two legendary Japanese swordsmiths, Muramasa and Masamune, as told in interconnected musical movements by spacefaring psych-metal warriors Howling Giant and their equally cosmic riff-wielding British contemporaries Sergeant Thunderhoof.

In the two pieces, »Muramasa« and »Masamune« have a contest to determine whose swordsmithery is superior: each crafting a blade of masterful quality and facing off by the edge of the river.

Instead of the typical approach with two bands contributing stand-alone sides of a record, Howling Giant and Sergeant Thunderhoof wanted to write an album that was thematically cohesive. Each side features a 20-minute song assembled via sharing of melodic ideas between the two bands during the writing process, and telling the story from the perspective of one of the sword smiths.

The result is a single piece of ambitious songcraft created by two riff-prog legends leaving another impressive mark on the heavy rock landscape.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well