5 years of self sacrifice and struggle has yielded this
expansive sonic 3 song EP that is something that combines the bombastic and raw
, drawn out, psychedelic black
doom of Burning Witch and The Body, with the unique and growing death rock
black metal like Hateful Abandon and Wreck and Reference. There’s only three
songs, but two of them or about 20-minutes in length and there’s no droning of
lapses of groove in either to nod you off to snooze town, the drum rhythms
create these simple but hypnotic and catchy vibes that’ll keep your mind
throbbing as the pure weight of the heaviness will gradually crush your ribs
into dust from the pressure.
“Hosanna Sathana” is 21-minutes of trudging ugly groove that
reminds me a bit of the reptilian improvised rattle and thumping garage vibe of
Ride For Revenge. The riffs really swim through a viscous mucous of distortion
and ring out in slow motion as the drums rattle and clank out the rhythms
behind the sonic plume of guitar fuzz. There’s that low and slow pull on the
groove that pulls them rhythms almost to a complete halt then releases them
again at full force only to be dragged back again creating a continual cycle of
drizzly doom that will challenge even the strongest of speakers. Something
about the sheer heaviness and the mix of shrieking feedback with the teasing
cycle of rhythms and the continual motion of it all that works like hypnotism.
It’s almost like Sonic Youth doing an experimental black metal fused with doom
band with these epic screeching feedback manipulations over shrieking and
croaking occult lyrics and a spiraling LSD inspired cult ritual expanding over
21-minutes. To me this is easily on of the more intoxicating and heavy bass overloaded
sounds that I’ve heard in a Hell of a while!!!!!
“Le Testament” is a bit more active than it’s predecessor,
but mostly in the vocal area. The swirling distortion and constant pumping
basslines with some simple yet effective drumming keeps the entrancing ability
still an 11 on a scale from 1 to 10, as you can actually feel the vortex suck
you in. You’re essentially being dry drowned by seismic down tuned heavy
psychedelic doom free-for-alls with a primal occult, or murderous drug addled
cult influence…it’s definitely evil and murky and quite possibly is feeding on
my brain right now with the radiating distortion that has my attention glued to
it.
Fans of Fleshpress, Ride For Revenge, Wreck and Reference,
Circle of Ouroborus, The Body, early Ramesses, Burning Witch, Rakhim…
Check ‘em out:
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