Larryrunner.com review of "Fate is Your Muse" [loosely translated from Spanish] Tuesday, April 9, 2013 DEVIL TO PAY: Fate is your Muse (2013 - Ripple Music) By Lokkie Once upon a time, over 10 years ago in Indianapolis, a guy named Janiak who gave him a crappy and had to go to the emergency. There had surgery, but spent thrusting anesthesia and other drugs and colleague was left in a coma. Neither doctors gave hard for him, but surprisingly woke up one day and said that while he was in a coma had visions of "the other world" cascoporro. As soon as he left the hospital, bundled to compose about that, and so in 2003 born Devil To Pay with a debut album under his arm. All this I made it up, I swear I put in the bio of the band. I've been thinking about these visions of you know what "other world", because if Middle-earth would have been sure that today was reviewing a Symphonic Power disc or something, instead of American Southern Sludge. In fact it is the fourth of his career, and do not worry, it will not hallucinations induced coma. At this point, the friend Janiak has moved to a higher state of being after having a "spiritual epiphany" and based this work in their search for understanding of the normal world and the paranormal: Eastern philosophies, quantum physics, the multiverse .. . I know? Anyway, I swear and perjure that this "Fate is your muse" is a heavy duty Sludge, and even remotely have anything that sounds or new age tribal as suggested its contents. In just over 50 minutes that this album, you will find 12 songs at first listen may seem very homogeneous (which then changes), and especially riffs. So many guitar riffs, serious, heavy and accurate as possible covering rock and metal sounds naked, in the sense not of basic, unadorned but. The metalheads cuts may be "Ten lizardmen & one pocketknife" and especially "Mass psychosis" which can even remember you in modern Metallica. "The naked truth" and "Already dead" account for the higher dose of old southern rock, without missing along the disk, and the doom touch puts "Beyond the ether", although slightly out of tune. The cut personally I liked is the bluesy "Tie one on" without the slightest doubt of the album and a sound that reminded me not hesitate a moment to ZZ Top. I'm not sure what state of mind should listen to this album, for'm not really set on this style, but looking for info on the band and the album, I found someone saying that this "Fate is your muse" is the band perfect sound for a girl dancing on the bar of a seedy roadside bar. I do not know if it's true or not, but there's that.