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(record review)SATORI JUNK-“The Golden Dwarf”(Endless Winter)

Satori Junk is the band hailing from Milan, Italy and this is their second full length album out on mighty Endless Winter Label. I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The album contains intro plus six songs, one of them being The Doors cover of “Light my Fire”. The music Satori Junk are playing is some hybrid of doom metal with a lot of atmosphere and darkened, almost psychodelical passages with lyrics which draw inspiration from horror movies and literature combined with nightmares. Sound interesting? It bloody is. “All Gods Die” starts like a dreamy, atmospheric voyage, evolves into full blooded up tempo doom metal song only to die down in murky atmosphere again. “Cosmic Prison” starts almost as sludgy, rolling song being very tortured and very painful, like being trapped in the atmosphere of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. The electronic back sounds only add to the eerie feeling of this song. “Blood Red Shrine” is for me the best song on this record, having almost tribal, ritualistic primal vibe in its song structure. “Death Dog” is the longest song on this record and it reminds me a lot of old Hammer horror movies, I don´t know why, but it is a good thing. The title song is slow and dreamy, nightmarish doom horror anthem. I don´t like The Doors and their music but this cover of “Light my Fire” in doomy, sludgy version was just great. I am not a fan of music such as this, but this is a decent effort.

7/10

Follow the band on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SatoriJunk/

Follow the label on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EndlessWinterDoomMetal/

 

 

(record review)Frayle-“The White Witch e.p.”(Seeing Red Records/Lay Bare Recordings)

I must admit that I have never heard of Frayle prior to listening to this record. They recently released their new e.p.via Seeing Red Records and  Lay Bare Recordings and I listened to the record and reviewed it for this webzine.

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Frayle are hailing from Cleveland, USA area and are playing doom metal with dreamy and sometimes nightmarish soundscapes that repeat in your ear while listening almost ritualistic and rolling over you and afterwards you feel exhausted but somehow sad and also happy in a depressive sort of way. The record contains four songs with the title track being more sludgy excursion into more greasy and dirtier riffing and for me the best song of the record is for sure “Wandering Star” which left me dreamy and hazy after listening and I don´t use any of the spiritual pipe dream shit to enhance my feelings while listening to the music that I like. The vocals add to the atmosphere and it is not dark it is rather like when you dream something and you know that something horrible is about to happen and you can´t do shit about it. Good record even for me, who don˙t like doom so much.

7/10

Follow: https://www.facebook.com/frayleband/

The labels: https://www.facebook.com/seeingredrecords/

https://www.facebook.com/laybarerecordings/

(news)Mist otkrivaju drugu pjesmu sa novog albuma koji uskoro izlazi!

Slovenska pretežno ženska doom metal grupa Mist otkriva pjesmu The Ghoul, drugu stvar iz nadolazećeg debitantskog albuma s naslovom »Free Me Of The Sun«, koji će biti objavljen 1. lipnja preko nizozemske izdavačke kuće Soulseller Records.

https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-ghoul

Snimanje albuma održano je u studiju Ork u Jevnici, za kojeg kažu, da su se bez sumnje odlučili. “Odmah, kad smo prvi put došli da razgledamo nas je uvjerio – ne samo zbog vintage opreme ili biste Josipa Broza – Tita u prostoru za gitare, ali i zbog dobre atmosfere i umirujuće prirode koja ga okružuje.” svoj izbor objašnjavaju Mist. “Obavezna oprema uz glazbenu u studiju uvijek je dobra hrana i jaka kava, za koje se stalno trudio marljivi vlasnik studija, Sašo Kisovec.” rekli su još. Za produkciju i miks je ponovno bio odgovoran Benjamin Kic, dok je mastering ovaj put obavio Patrick W. Engel (Candlemass, Pentagram, Darkthrone, Exodus) iz studija Temple Of Disharmony.

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Ovaj put bend je uzeo puno više vremena za pisanje materijala nego za prethodna dva izdanja. “Stoga smo više naglaska dali na pripreme za snimanje i traženje željenog zvuka, za svaki instrument pojedinačno kao i za cjelinu. Može se reći, da smo ponosni što smo ovaj put doista dobili onaj pravi Mist zvuk, kojeg smo izgubili na EP-ju Inan’.” zadovoljni su konačnim rezultatom višemjesečnog rada. Basistkinja Neža još dodaje: “Ja sam osobno također ponosna i na predanost, koju smo pokazali tijekom samih priprema za snimanje i izdržljivost u studiju. Doista smo dali sve od sebe i nismo se prestali truditi, kad smo znali da u određenom trenutku neku stvar možemo odsvirati i bolje.”

“Pjesme na albumu nastajale su pojedinačno, što nam je ostavilo slobodne ruke u stvaranju, ali to ne znači da nisu povezane, jer ih vežu teme, koje su bile kod nas uvijek vrlo prisutne – smrt, uroci, život poslije smrti, priroda… Svaki je tekst proizvod trenutne inspiracije umjesto planiranog slijeda tema ili događaja.” kažu o nastanku pjesama i moguće veze između njih. Pa i sam omot konceptualno odražava naslovnu pjesmu albuma. Ili kako još kažu Mist: “Valovi krvi i emocija su more, gdje se osoba diže u dubine preostatka svoga života i pozdravlje se od sunca. U mraku onda prihvaća mjesec, koji mu pruža novu nadu u posmrtnom postojanju.”

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Službena promocija albuma »Free Me Of The Sun« održat će se 9. lipnja u Klubu Gromka u Ljubljani, gdje će se Mist pridružiti odlični riječki doom metal bend Old Night, za kojeg će to biti premijerni nastup u Sloveniji. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/444518919326971/

Još nekoliko potvrđenih koncertnih datuma:

29.6. Kranj (SLO) – Subart Festival

13.7. Postojna (SLO)

4.8. Osoppo (ITA) – Pietrasonica Fest