Ufomammut "8"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Sludge, Doom Metal
Label: Neurot Recordings ‎(NR103), Supernatural Cat ‎(CAT019LP)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 22, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Babel (8:22)
2. Warsheep (5:05)
3. Zodiac (9:26)
4. Fatum (3:59)
5. Prismaze (4:18)
6. Core (5:15)
7. Wombdemonium (3:01)
8. Psyrcle (7:43)

Total Time 47:09

Line-up: 
Poia – Guitars and fx
Urlo – Bass, vocals, FX and synths
Vita – Drums

Description/Reviews: 

That’s pretty much Ufomammut. Doomy, sludgy, stonery, psychedelic, a tad bit evil and a lot bit mad. ... The music here moves in unique ways for a record predominantly in the doom tradition. While there are certainly plenty of delicious riffs to sink your teeth into, Ufomammut generally avoid the trap of spending too much time in any one place, giving the album a sense of unpredictability that isn’t necessarily a doom metal strong-suit. These tracks are chock-full of psychedelic sounds, sludgy grooves, and tonal shifts that make this record a very easy one to listen to repeatedly, with new elements being pulled from each spin. This is an adventurous record that is very rarely boring or stagnant.

Read the full review by Jonathan Adams at heavyblogisheavy.com

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Neurosis "Fires Within Fires"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Industrial, Alternative, Post Metal
Label: Neurot Recordings
Format: vinyl, cassette, CD, digital
Release date: September 23, 2016
Tracklist: 
01. Bending Light
02. A Shadow Memory
03. Fire Is The End Lesson
04. Broken Ground
05. Reach

Line-up: 
Scott Kelly - Guitars & Vocals
Steve Von Till - Guitars, Vocals, Filters & Textures
Dave Edwardson - Bass, Moog Synthesizer & Space
Noah Landis - Organ, Piano, Samples & Atmospheres
Jason Roeder - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

In true Ouroborean style, "Fires Within Fires" gives due to its predecessors while progressing forward into the unfamiliar and formidable. Striking the band's signature balance between light and dark, beauty and repulsion, dense sonic heaviness and reflective space. "Fires Within Fires" is succinct, raw and deeply soulful, an all-encompassing reminder to all that transfiguration in sound remains their most commanding and inimitable strength.

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Dark Buddha Rising "Inversum"

Country: Finland
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Space Rock
Label: Neurot Recordings
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: September 25, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. E S O (24:05)
2. E X O (23:25)

Total Time: 47:30

Line-up: 
V. Ajomo - guitars, vocals
V. Vatanen - guitars, vocals
J. Saarivuori - keyboards
P. Rämänen - bass, percussion
J. Rämänen - drums
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J. Vanhanen, M. Neumann - vocals

Description/Reviews: 

‘E S O’ opens in relative clam before building into a swirling mass of noise, which sounds like some rip in the space/time continuum as just opened and all manner of evil beings are flying through. It isn’t helped by the “vocals”, which swoop and soar at you like abandoned souls of the doomed. This is space rock when things go wrong and you bump into those really nasty aliens, the ones that play with your mind.
‘E X O’ is a more sedated affair for its opening ten minutes and you could be forgiven for thinking that the band are going to stay on a much steadier path this time. Evoking dramatic feelings, its repetitive riff builds as the cymbals crash and the bass rumbles in the background. It’s not long before it all goes awry again though and as the winds of change start to howl through the bass rumble, you can sense the foreboding as the band decide where they will head next. It’s a tremendous feat and one can only imagine how they hash up this stuff in the studio.

 Read the full review by Martyn Coppack at echoesanddust.com

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YOB "Clearing the Path to Ascend"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Doom, Black Metal, Post Metal
Label: Neurot Recordings
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 2, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. In Our Blood (16:56)
2. Nothing to Win (11:22)
3. Unmask the Spectre (15:25)
4. Marrow (18:49)

Line-up: 
Mike Scheidt - guitar, vocals
Aaron Rieseberg - bass
Travis Foster - drums

Description/Reviews: 

Those threads of progressive rock and drone that have always underscored the music of YOB are now fully realized with Clearing The Path To Ascend, as each track forges into the next with a ferocity that’s as completely unhinged as it is utterly focused. Drummer Travis Foster wields his signature rhythmic furor here with bombastic precision while bassist, Aaron Rieseberg, coils around the sonic tide with an unforgiving churn – all the while in a deadly synchronicity with Scheidt’s uncanny vocal range and its pendulous movement between the triumphant howls of a medieval madman and the earth splitting growls of a war-battered titan. With Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB explores a thunderous dimension that’s familiar in its auditory clout but completely new in the execution of its trajectory, taking the band’s sound into a remarkable place as ethereally compelling in its aesthetic as it is merciless in the magnitude of its sound. 

As is the YOB way, the tracks here don’t simply offer a vacuous glimpse into the already riff-soaked doom genre. These songs demand the tandem attention of mind, body, and soul – etching a mark across a sound that finds YOB as formidable and unequaled as they’ve ever been. True ascension requires a destruction of those barriers that prevent any movement forward. Unsurprisingly, YOB pummels any and all of these obstacles with absolute authority, clearing the way for a genuinely visceral listening experience and climbing upward into a realm that sets the band in a heavy metal place that has been and will always remain wholly their own.

YOB’s music is not unlike the path that’s led them to their current place among heavy metal’s elite, slowly building from a hushed ethereal vapor into the thunderous and masterful tumult of sound domination. The ethereal mists of Eugene, Oregon no doubt provided the perfect catalyst for founding member and vocalist Mike Scheidt to call up the signature of surging doom that would soon come to garner YOB its current position as one of the most respected and revered bands in all of heavy metal. While giving due sonic credit to cornerstone influences such as Cathedral, Sleep, Electric Wizard, and Black Sabbath – YOB immediately set out to define a sound wholly singular and utterly devastating in its cathartic enormity, incomparable to any other music being created at the time.

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