The Doorway In the Darkness
Rob Stanley
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The M Room | Rob Stanley | 9:44 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Enigma Miss | Rob Stanley | 3:12 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Green Surf | Rob Stanley | 7:51 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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The Leather Muppet | Rob Stanley | 0:44 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Lasagne Man | Rob Stanley | 6:35 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Point Lookout | Rob Stanley | 12:19 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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The Doorway In the Darkness | Rob Stanley | 9:26 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 7 Songs |
Customer Reviews
Shredorama
Rob Stanley, easily one of the most unassuming guitar heroes around, was dead serious about creating something to stir your music receptors, to tingle the cilia in your ear, and to downright make his mark on the music scene.
Finally, The Doorway in the Darkness has arrived, and though only featuring seven tracks, this is one massive album. Mastered by Joseph Carra down in Melbourne, the album polished just enough to not sound over-produced and let the guitar shine, after all, Rob Stanley's work is all about creating journeys over six (or sometimes seven) strings, with the backing instrumentation there to help you on your way.
Kicking off with the new version of The M Room, the slight phaser-effect washes slightly over gently picked semi-distorted tones, lulling you into a false-sense of relaxation, and then the chugging begins. It's thick and heavy sounding, and it's the right pace bang your head to the guitar-metal gods. This song is a good warm-up for the rest of the album, with a sinister warm-up riff kicking in at about 7:20 that keeps building and building.
Enigma Miss could easily be a sly nod to the Eddie Van Halens and Steve Vai's out there. Very frenetic with a slight late 80's thrash-metal groove underlying the song.
The earlier version of Green Surf was one of the first songs Rob put forward to The Point, and it's frenetic riff that gnaws its way through the song manages to creep its way to the back of your brain and stay there. I swear, after listening to the album that main riff in the song kept repeating. At the 5:20 mark, there's an incredible change where clean, phased guitar only prepares you for the next section of the song, and you could easily imagine this being used on a surf video with slow-motion footage of clean, 6ft barrels and the surfers letting their hands brush through the wave while being tightly slotted.
The Leather Muppet comes out of nowhere. It's a cheeky little song (the shortest on the album at a mere 44 seconds in length). It's a happy little shredfest.
Though not the most epic of songs on the album, Lasagne Man would easily be Rob's centre-piece for The Doorway in the Darkness. It's a blistering, finger-twisting affair mixed with some thrashy chords. I love seeing this song performed live, just so you can see how Rob goes to great lengths to keep the pace. The backing instrumentation almost has an old-skool Metallica approach to it, with a snarling guitar lick riding over the top.
One of the dirtiest, deepest tracks on Doorway would be Point Lookout. Insanely chuggy and so damn low, as much as I like the track, I find that it does tend to take me down a dark corridor in my head, and leaves me with a feeling like I need to keep looking over my shoulder. This song could easily be used in a horror flick.
Lastly, the title track. The Doorway in the Darkness, like The M Room, starts with gentle guitar caressing, with a light delay and chorus effect sparkling, only then to have your ears slapped with another burst of shredding. It's Rob's version of 'Flight of the Bumblebee', then all of a sudden a homage to the 70/80s disco groove kicks in just to stir things up a little.
This is the third-longest song on the album, clocking in at 9 minutes 26 seconds. There's some awesome guitar harmonising that brings to mind some of the lead breaks one would hear from bands in the more Metalcore/Hardcore genre, but then it flips again to another massive build-up to a wicked breakdown that will have the kids fight dancing like their lives depended on it.
The whole album is a journey that must be taken in full, leaving you exhausted at the end, only to go back for more.
SHREDFEST
I Have had the pleasure of seeing Rob perform live and it was amazing... he shreds the guitar like nobody else....a must see and the album is a must have!!
Top Albums and Songs By Rob Stanley
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The Awesome Infi - The M Room Pt 2 | The Awesome Infi - The M Room Pt 2 | 5:10 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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The Leather Muppet | The Doorway In the Darkness | 0:44 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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The M Room | The Doorway In the Darkness | 9:44 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Enigma Miss | The Doorway In the Darkness | 3:12 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Green Surf | The Doorway In the Darkness | 7:51 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Lasagne Man | The Doorway In the Darkness | 6:35 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
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Point Lookout | The Doorway In the Darkness | 12:19 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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The Doorway In the Darkness | The Doorway In the Darkness | 9:26 | $1.69 | View In iTunes |
