HEY COLOSSUS VS DETHSCALATOR:
Latest eruption of doom-sludge-drone heaviness from UK kill
team Hey Colossus, here teamed up with the awesomely named
Dethscalator, but more on them in a second.
Hey Colossus continue to expand their epic dirge space rock,
with three sprawling slow-jams, that oozes from slow burning drones,
to lurching stumbling blackened crush, to metallic krautrock and back
again, rumbling drones erupt into looped sounding riff heavy sludge
workouts, the vocals a hellish bellow, feedback swirling all over the
place, the band a beast, a lumbering sonic juggernaut, downtuned and
crushing, but spaced out and psychedelic too. Folks into Shit And
Shine might want to give these guys a try, the same sort of noise
drenched fucked up mantra like mesmerizing heaviness. Amidst all that
heaviness, the band do unwind into hypnotic post/space rock jams,
simple and rhythmic, under a haze of murky buzz and jagged skree, but
seem to eventually explode into either a squall of melting lysergic
effects drenched freakout, or pounding black murk slow motion metal
crush. We dig it either way!
Which brings us to Dethscalator, who we liked already, cuz,
well, they're called Dethscalator, we're like that. Thankfully the
sound lives up to the name, a gnarled blend of Gore like repetitive
heaviness, and lo-slung Jesus Lizard like noise rock, the vocals
especially, a dead ringer for David Yow, all scowly and sort of sung /
spoken, and super distorted, with the band swinging all downtuned and
seasick, until they lock into bursts of cyclical riffage, that sound
almost looped, occasionally lifting off into some serious space rock
territory, before falling back into another stretch of woozy metallic
noise rock, culminating in the weird brooding noise rock slowjam that
ends the record, murky and washed out and gloomy, weirdly melodic and
super dark and creepy. Rad rad rad. Definitely need more Dethscalator
in our lives, and heck more Hey Colossus while we're at it!
Features some awesomely fucked up and garish (and badly
photoshopped) cover art, one eyed creep and headless biker anyone??
UHURA1 : HEY COLOSSUS Vs DETHSCALATOR The first release on Black Labs is now available to purchase via www.riotseason.com (link : http://www.riotseason.com/UHURA1.htm) and will be in all record stores with good taste as of October 26th 2009
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