Sergeant Thunderhoof

WATCH OUT THAT THESE U.K. ROCKERS’ THUNDEROUS RIFFS (AND CUSTOM CABINETS) DON’T SWEEP YOU BACK TO MEDIEVAL TIMES

By Gregory Adams

SERGEANT THUNDERHOOF SAY that the making of The Ghost of Badon Hill was an exercise in restraint, but the resultant sound is just as epic as ever. Mark Sayer, the U.K. rockers’ founding guitarist, says that following the towering gloom of their 2022 double album The Sceptred Veil, the veteran group felt like they needed to streamline their approach. With The Ghost of Badon Hill, they’ve achieved that in a technical sense — limiting the record to a single piece of vinyl — but still, none of its six songs of sorrow-stirring, spaciously chorded stoner-doom sits beneath the five-minute mark; the closing gloom-swing of “Beyond the Hill” actually tops out at 10½ minutes. One major difference is that they’ve slimmed down on ultra-extended lead sections after hearing feedback that things…

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