There is one characteristic you must have before embarking yourself down the path of Orthodox’s music, and that is patience… patience and the attention span of an 100 year old turtle, yes that’s how focus you have to be in order to grasp the rudimentary occult ways of this Spaniard doom/drone band.

As to try and test our stamina, our willingness to actually hear what “Gran Poder” has to offer, the band opens their debut with a monumental, enormous song in “Geryon's Throne” a 27 minute Leviathan that gets interesting only as it winds down close to the 5 minute mark after dragging us through a huge segment of drone riffs, only then Orthodox decides to add some elaborate riffs to the mix, and they are good despite been so slow and so late into the track; but once again these guys return to the atmospheres and the drone guitars, just as a remainder that to listen to “Gran Poder” and enjoy it, you need to take your time… you really need to take your time.

Gran Poder has been acclaimed and every review from people close to these atmospheric, drone, doom style rate their debut as an almost masterpiece. I can sincerely see why the band is so interesting, so intriguing and so surprising when they intend to do so. In this genre, is the atmospheres and the feelings what spring you to recognition, and they have done just that; using the monotonous riffs with precision to create a desperate aura that borders insanity. Yes the record will not be a rollercoaster of catchy and skillful guitar display, or the songs remembered by the listeners, but the feelings and the intend will and that is where Orthodox excels, it makes you feel something, desperation, insanity, entrapment… you will feel even if you get as bored and depressed as me the first time you listen to this.