
After a name change and a seven-year hiatus from fronting his own band, Arjan Miranda (Black Mountain, Family Band, Children, S.T.R.E.E.T.S.) re-emerges with Spiritual America, a debut album that makes up for lost time with guitar moves steeped in Saturn’s slow return. Yes, this record treads a landscape that metal musicians rarely explore: what’s left to say when the haze of adolescence has faded, the guitar sits gathering dust in the closet, and youth’s utopian fantasies are long forgotten?