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LOMA VISTA
Sweden’s occult rock overlords take aim for the arena
IT’S BEEN A while since metal has felt big. Not Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-wet-dreams-symphonic-metal big, but ravenously ambitious, let’s-take-pop-on-at-its-own-game big. You have to go back to the late 80s and hair metal’s chart-gobbling heyday for a time when bands really, truly wanted it.
Sly old devil being the biggest tell so far, not least , which found our (anti-)hero hooking up with Avicii and Madonna’s old songwriters to deliver the 80s hard rock dancefloor banger to end all 80s hard rock dancefloor bangers.