Trotoar - No Salvation patch

Behind this funny name for the french-speakers (« Trottoir », pronounced « trotoar » which means « pavement ») is standing a two-piece heavy metal band with an innate sense for great melodies, a band that loves so much the true heavy metal that they released one of the best album of the more or less well-named « New wave of true heavy metal ». We aren’t a webzine but a label, and we have the choice to promote and sell whoever we want but, be sure of it, if it was the case, we would have promoted this album at least as much as we are doing now.
If you into this kind of vibe, believe us, you really need to hear this album at least once :
You are here at the tip of the spear of heavy metal revival, the best produced, which modernizes with know-how and respect the codes of a most traditional heavy metal: by infusing it and blending modern aspects in order to transcend it!
The enchanting voice of Linnea Landsedt gives the album a wonderful richness: sometimes heady, sometimes incantatory and hazy. Carried by melodies with reliefs as varied as they are colorful, the album navigates without distinction between an energy that distributes enough dopamine to brighten the gloomy day of an entire country during a winter confinement, and this intimate appeasement that can only be provoked by passion and the most honest melodies, those which, with the help of technical artifices or not, resonates a part of our brain that rarely does enough.
In short, No Salvation is a work of art which has integrated wonderfully the heritage of dual and complex music, between movement of universal sharing and return to oneself, return to one's being. Others before them may have done it, but we must, for sure, classify Trotoar in the right lineage that has provided Mercyful Fate, Candlemass, Pagan Altar, Angel Witch or more recently Huntress or The devil’s blood. If you find in these groups very diverse and apparently incompatible qualities, know that Trotoar concentrates them in their purest essence.
Musically, the heavy metal of the 80s with speed riffs that make you raise your fist and scream in the heart rubs shoulders with feverish hard rock and its dizzying riffs but also and perhaps above all the solemn slowness of doom that no representation, that no words can explain.
Finally, this subsequent digest of all that has made the strength of a founding genre for all that will become « metal » remains, more than a tribute, the proof that old-school heavy metal was not only the result of an era but that it was well and truly inhabited by a timeless spirit and it touched on something that makes music an important part of the lives of the majority of people who are fortunate enough to listen to it every day.
In summary and in key words, No Salvation is an album which is worthy, solemn, efficient, modern, personal, rich, powerful, complex and above all, total.
Here it is, this expression is the best way to define Trotoar and why the idea of ​​offering it to you enchants us a lot : No Salvation is a total work of art.