The Full Moon Sessions (Expanded Edition)
by SPELL
Bestia
Bestia
Classic heavy metal perfection, the sound is absolutely badass.
Favorite track: Electric Witchery.
Rod
Rod
In a dystopian world ruled by vanity, greed and cynicism, where music is just another form of vapid entertainment there are still a few good heavy metal bands to listen to and swear by in the name of rock n' roll . Spell are one of such bands!
Favorite track: Ozymandias.
Aubrey Ingraham
Aubrey Ingraham
What if... What if Platinum Blonde was inspired by Black Sabbath and the occult and not Devo and hairspray? I have Never Enough stuck in my head and it wont go away. Instant fan of this band. Highly recommended.
Favorite track: Never Enough.
Talon Sullivan
Talon Sullivan
I dig the punky vibe on this one. Add a dash of occult and you have yourself a solid intro into the world of Spell!
Favorite track: Sisters of the Moon.
barleybase
barleybase
For the past four weeks I have been listening to the entire SPELL discography practically on repeat. I keep getting drawn back into this album for its raw power. SPELL is instantly a classic while uniquely their own sound.
Favorite track: Conquer the Skies.
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Never Enough
05:22
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Never enough
I can’t begin to fulfill this endless need
You can’t imagine just what it means to me
Don’t try to stop me
It’s already got me
This time you’ll find out just what I really am
I can’t ever give this up
Because it’s never enough
The promise I made you was more than I conceived
Just one more time and I’ll finally feel relieved
Whispers about me
The darkness surrounds me
Still find this longing is desperately unmet
I can’t ever give this up
Because it’s never enough
It kills me to witness the pain this puts your through
The truth is that i need this more than i need you
Nothing can stop me
You’ve already lost me
Traded my life in and this is all that’s left
I can’t ever give this up
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Sisters of the Moon
03:55
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Sisters of the Moon
Intense silence as she walks in the room
Her black robes trailing, sister of the moon
A black widow spider makes more sound than she
The black moons in those eyes of hers make more sense to me
Heavy persuasion oh, it was hard to breath
It was dark at the top of the stairs
As she called to me
So I followed as friends often do
I cared not for love nor money and I think she knew
The people, they loved her oh, but they are so cruel
She asked to be my sister,
Sister of the moon
Some call her sister of the moon
Some say illusions are her game
Wrap her in velvet, does anyone
Does anyone know her name
So we make our choices, when there is no choice
And listen to the voices, ignoring our own voice
The people, they love her, oh but they are so cruel
She asked to be my sister
Sister of the moon
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Electric Witchery
04:16
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Electric Witchery
There’s no tomorrow
No yesterday
Keep moving all the time cus’ we like it that way
Always in action
Straight to the top
Nightmare in overdrive and never gonna stop
Electric witchery
Black magic signs
Distorted rock ‘n roll
Captivates our minds
I feel the power
I give my life
My feedback echoes as the witching hour strikes
Recite the curses
The spell is cast
Black magic witchery we’re never turning back
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Possessed by Heavy Metal
04:15
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Possessed by Heavy Metal
We are consumed by the power of electric rock ‘n roll
Heavy metal thunder shakes my body
And white lightning strikes my soul
I can feel it flowing through
Gives me power gives me fuel
No one can stop us as we bleed for heavy metal that is real
We are possessed by heavy metal
We’re never gonna die
We are possessed by heavy metal
We’re here to take your life
I can feel this power rising as the blood spills from my veins
Every time I taste it I can feel it bring me closer to the grave
Before the sign i kneel
This is my pact forever sealed
I will sacrifice my life for heavy metal that is real
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Shocker
02:37
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Shocker
She captured me alive
Chained and broken, I was crucified
I died a sacrifice
So touch me now and shock me back to life
Shocker, shocker
Make me bleed
Shocker, shocker
It’s what I need
Shocker, shocker
Make me feel you, come on
Shock me till I scream
The devil owns my soul
My body moves but it’s not under my control
My flesh and blood remains
I wanna feel them now in pleasure or in pain
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Maniac
02:50
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Maniac
I stagger through the streets alone at night
Hear sirens wailing and then flashing into sight
You'll feel the touch of a killer
Maniac
Maniac
Metal maniac
Among the shadows I lie in wait for you
Cannot rest until I see this through
Sweat drips
My knife becomes my guide
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Conquer the Skies
04:40
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Conquer the Skies
Bombers streak across the sky
Knights of armoured steel
Rockets fire above the ground
Heaven is our battlefield
Kamikaze pilots fly
Out of the rising sun
Swallow deadly cyanide
In death the fire their guns
Every time we fly
We are prepared to die
The brave cry out banzai
Fearless we conquer the sky
Bombs are bursting miles below
Our earthly lives in vain
No one can escape the shock
Shrapnel marks the graves
Light reflects of polished chrome
Our battered wings still shine
Solar angels take to flight
Into eternity rise
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Ozymandias
03:30
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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from a antique land (who said)
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone still stand
And in the desert near them on the last
A shattered visage sneers ahead in cold command
King of kings
My name is Ozymandias
I am the king of kings
And on the pedestal these words appear
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
Nothing beside remains, round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, the lone and level sands stretch far away
(Adapted from the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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Too Wild to Live (Too Young to Die)
My heart beats faster now
My blood it boils I'm uncontained
Alive i don’t know how
I've lost control
Through dark and empty space
My eyes are blind but i am free
Don’t ever stop this pace
Hell waits for me
I’m young and invincible, so come on
Too wild to live, too young to die
They’re dropping left and right
This pace was never meant to last
All help is out of sight
I'm on my own
I know the end is near
I've seen it coming all along
Don’t ever feel the fear
Or else you’re gone
We’re young and invincible, so come on
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Zott Lee
01:50
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about
“To us, music is magic” reasons Cam Mesmer of Spell. “It has the ability to alter people's perception and change reality, to make people move, to influence emotional states and carry people away from the rational and into the strange and mysterious”.
This Vancouver-based power trio have thus far wasted little time proving themselves new masters of the metaphysical. Their first record for Bad Omen ‘For None And All’ sent shockwaves across the metal underground with its mystical and malevolent brand of metallic witchcraft, in which seventies-styled atmosphere and eighties-damaged drama undertook a dark marriage with satisfyingly timeless results. Yet this was the second chapter in this band’s life proper, and the first - the band’s debut and their rawest, hungriest statement of intent - has gone unreleased in its intended form. Until now, that is.
Comprising ten wild and electrifying ditties informed equally by savage finesse and gung-ho intensity, ‘Full Moon Sessions’ - which was originally released as a six song mini-album in 2014 - chronicles an era where these three devotees of the transformative power of heavy amplification (comprising Cam (vocals/bass guitar) guitarist Graham McVie and drummer Lester Spectre) had recently evolved from their earlier incarnation as the thrasher Stryker, henceforth allowing their dreams and passion to run rampant in abundance, which summarily resulted in a document with irresistible anthemic bravura to match its jagged attack “These songs are born from our youthful struggle to survive, to make ends meet, and to find our place in the world” reveals Cam, “We created this album on almost no budget while working full-time minimum wage jobs and scraping by. It was a labour of love and inspired by hardship – countless late night rehearsals after evening work shifts, followed by early morning shifts on a few hours of sleep. We poured everything we had into these songs, and we're very proud to see this album finally released in it's full form, all these years later.”
Indeed, such unhinged passion is eminently audible in full-throttle barnstormers like the hook-laden curtain-raiser ‘Never Enough’, the wickedly Priest-damanged ‘Possessed By Heavy Metal’ and the NWOBHM-tinged ‘Shocker’. Moreover, the unreleased tracks - including ‘Conquer The Skies’, the Shelley-derived ‘Ozymandias’ and the slavering ‘Maniac’, despite having been sidelined largely owing to uncontrollable circumstances involving a certain AWOL engineer, are every bit as potent and powerful to behold.
Nonetheless, this is a band unafraid to throw a curveball into proceedings, and a centrepiece of the record is the band’s unexpected cover of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Sisters Of The Moon’, in which Stevie Nicks’ beguiling tale of the esoteric proves a perfect match for the band’s starry-eyed stylings. “After the first time I heard that song I dreamt about it for many nights” reveals Cam. “The lyrics crept into my subconscious and I experienced them in different ways and from different perspectives each time I closed my eyes.. I'm a big fan of Stevie's lyrics and voice, and I believe she's done a lot for music and art by demonstrating the power of the mysterious”.
Unusual vibrations prevailed throughout the making of ‘Full Moon Sessions’, so titled as its recording unwittingly took place entirely on the nights of full moons. Cam wastes little time in
attributing much of this to such extra-terrestrial influence “During the whole process of writing, rehearsing, and recording these songs, we felt that we had something powerful and dangerous on our hands. The moon has always been associated with madness and confusion, and this 'lunacy' certainly had its effect on our song writing as well as the recording process through the many hands that worked on this project and left their mark, as well as in the fact that due to ‘moon madness' these recordings have only finally been fully uncovered to be released in their full form, at long last”
“I think there's a kind of idealism and innocence in this music that perhaps can only be captured and explored in youth” he surmises.”We wrote these songs in our late teens and early twenties, and we believed in them with absolute conviction. The devotion that went into The ‘Full Moon Sessions’ is something that we're still inspired to maintain” Such devotion is manifest on this deadly document - no less than the full-blooded roar and vigorous fury of classic heavy metal at its most quixotic and invigorating, not to mention a moon well worth a howl in its direction from any self-respecting headbanger.
This Vancouver-based power trio have thus far wasted little time proving themselves new masters of the metaphysical. Their first record for Bad Omen ‘For None And All’ sent shockwaves across the metal underground with its mystical and malevolent brand of metallic witchcraft, in which seventies-styled atmosphere and eighties-damaged drama undertook a dark marriage with satisfyingly timeless results. Yet this was the second chapter in this band’s life proper, and the first - the band’s debut and their rawest, hungriest statement of intent - has gone unreleased in its intended form. Until now, that is.
Comprising ten wild and electrifying ditties informed equally by savage finesse and gung-ho intensity, ‘Full Moon Sessions’ - which was originally released as a six song mini-album in 2014 - chronicles an era where these three devotees of the transformative power of heavy amplification (comprising Cam (vocals/bass guitar) guitarist Graham McVie and drummer Lester Spectre) had recently evolved from their earlier incarnation as the thrasher Stryker, henceforth allowing their dreams and passion to run rampant in abundance, which summarily resulted in a document with irresistible anthemic bravura to match its jagged attack “These songs are born from our youthful struggle to survive, to make ends meet, and to find our place in the world” reveals Cam, “We created this album on almost no budget while working full-time minimum wage jobs and scraping by. It was a labour of love and inspired by hardship – countless late night rehearsals after evening work shifts, followed by early morning shifts on a few hours of sleep. We poured everything we had into these songs, and we're very proud to see this album finally released in it's full form, all these years later.”
Indeed, such unhinged passion is eminently audible in full-throttle barnstormers like the hook-laden curtain-raiser ‘Never Enough’, the wickedly Priest-damanged ‘Possessed By Heavy Metal’ and the NWOBHM-tinged ‘Shocker’. Moreover, the unreleased tracks - including ‘Conquer The Skies’, the Shelley-derived ‘Ozymandias’ and the slavering ‘Maniac’, despite having been sidelined largely owing to uncontrollable circumstances involving a certain AWOL engineer, are every bit as potent and powerful to behold.
Nonetheless, this is a band unafraid to throw a curveball into proceedings, and a centrepiece of the record is the band’s unexpected cover of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Sisters Of The Moon’, in which Stevie Nicks’ beguiling tale of the esoteric proves a perfect match for the band’s starry-eyed stylings. “After the first time I heard that song I dreamt about it for many nights” reveals Cam. “The lyrics crept into my subconscious and I experienced them in different ways and from different perspectives each time I closed my eyes.. I'm a big fan of Stevie's lyrics and voice, and I believe she's done a lot for music and art by demonstrating the power of the mysterious”.
Unusual vibrations prevailed throughout the making of ‘Full Moon Sessions’, so titled as its recording unwittingly took place entirely on the nights of full moons. Cam wastes little time in
attributing much of this to such extra-terrestrial influence “During the whole process of writing, rehearsing, and recording these songs, we felt that we had something powerful and dangerous on our hands. The moon has always been associated with madness and confusion, and this 'lunacy' certainly had its effect on our song writing as well as the recording process through the many hands that worked on this project and left their mark, as well as in the fact that due to ‘moon madness' these recordings have only finally been fully uncovered to be released in their full form, at long last”
“I think there's a kind of idealism and innocence in this music that perhaps can only be captured and explored in youth” he surmises.”We wrote these songs in our late teens and early twenties, and we believed in them with absolute conviction. The devotion that went into The ‘Full Moon Sessions’ is something that we're still inspired to maintain” Such devotion is manifest on this deadly document - no less than the full-blooded roar and vigorous fury of classic heavy metal at its most quixotic and invigorating, not to mention a moon well worth a howl in its direction from any self-respecting headbanger.
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SPELL Vancouver, British Columbia
HYPNOTIC HEAVY METAL
Cam Mesmer — bass/vocals/guitar
Al Lester — drums/vocals/guitar
Gabriel B — synth/guitar
Jeff Black — guitar
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