Ogre - Thrice as Strong (2019)^{Release ID: 16722}

Ogre inhabit the no man's land between doom metal and 70s style heavy psych / rock and never more so than on this album, opening with The Future, this is the first of the doomier songs, the other two, Blood of Winter and Cyber-Czar, taking up most of the second half. Hive Mind, Big Man and Judgement Day are a trio of bluesy, boogie-driven, hard rock tracks that definitely wouldn't be out of place on a 1970s heavy rock record, along with the heavy blues rock of King of the Wood. As much as I like Ogre I've got to say this album seems a little disjointed. Sure the individual songs are fine, but as a whole coherent album I'm not convinced.