Gaia's Pentagram will have your soul enchanted by their spiritual hymns, your head banging to their slow and heavy doomness, and your hips swaying to groovy riffing. The stoner rock and doom metal trio was formed in Toronto in 2007. Stiv Rot plays guitar and sings, Dan Maletich plays bass, and Callum McPhee plays drums.
The band's 2008 self-produced 9 track LP 13 Witches features a unique bassy and fuzzy guitar tone that especially comes to life when cranked up on large speakers. Lady Fern is a catchy riff-based song that you will play on repeat all day. One and The Libyan Desert will attune your spirit with empyrean universes beyond our threshold of comprehension. Not wanting to follow convention and intent on breaking the mold, their 13 minute long Earth also on 13 Witches begins with a bong-smoking instrumental which melts into a rainforest soundscape. Tapping into drone and experimental roots, the aptly named 666420 ends with a five minute long feedback outro.
With experience under his belt, the reserved Stiv Rot formed Gaia's Pentagram with the idea of mixing stoner doom with song themes of pagan and wiccan rituals, cosmic speculation, the Gaia hypothesis, and a reverence of Mother Earth. The earthy and spiritual lyrics provide good imagery for upbeat psychedelia and slow-tempo stoner doom straight out of the stash of the Milky Way galaxy.
If you want to acclimate your spirit to the auric vibes of eternal peace but do it driving a muscle car, listen to Gaia's Pentagram because Gaia's Pentagram is one with the earth.
Ave Gaia's Pentagram, Greetings & Salutations from The Goth Queen...I Thank Thee for Joining as a Cherished Friend & I Pray Thou Join My Other Spaces...I Most Enjoyed Thy Graven Images in Thy Portrait Gallery.The Blood In My Veins Warmeth.Spread the Magick-Gothick Illuminaten...And I Thank Thee...Thy Friend, Jinx of the Coven
