Queen Elephantine "Scarab"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Doom
Label: Heart & Crossbone Records (CD), Cosmic Eye Records (vinyl)
Release date: May 10, 2013 (digital), June 5, 2013 (CD), June 15, 2013 (vinyl)
Tracklist: 
1. Veil - 08:12
2. Crone - 18:15
3. Snake - 10:44
4. Clear Light of the Unborn - 13:05

Line-up: 
Mat Becker : bass
Indrayudh Shome : electric guitar
Ian Sims : drums
Nathanael Totushek : drums
Srinivas Reddy : tanpura/swarm
Brett Zweiman : slide guitar/divine mosquito

Description/Reviews: 

A work of grandeur which finds the band digging even deeper into delirious and psychedelic threnodies, abysmal doom observances and mild invocations, offering deep, heavy sounds straight from the soul-realm woven through the geometries of the cosmos. A funerary procession danced by a mighty double-trio of two axes, two drumsets, and two insectoid drones.
Unlike the majority of doom metal music released nowadays, this is not pure Black Sabbath worship but a mournful ride through a room full of mirrors reflecting '60s acid psychedelic rock, shamanic cosmic trance, and creepy, slow doom. Everything here is totally steeped in a damp, pagan / mystical basement atmosphere full of intensely hypnagogic meditation visualizations. “Scarab” is the type of album that takes the listener on an esoteric journey of self-discovery. Opening track "Veil" is the sound of a Mercurial navigator galloping through epochs, a coarse voyage through unspeakable ancient rites. "Crone" is up next, revealing a shadowy affinity between minimal tribal-doom and elusive math-psych. Third track "Snake" is an 11-minute squirm of primordial suspension and reproach with sonorous and radiant vocalizations, swallowed by the caliginous doom wreckage of "Clear Light of the Unborn" which takes this masterpiece to its' end in a chariot of headless horses heaving a monolithic obsidian temple across the dense, lightless extremes of space. 

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