Witchthroat Serpent – Swallow The Venom
01. Feu Sacre
02. Lucifer’s Fire
03. Pauper’s Grave
04. The Might Of The Unfailing Source
05. Scorpent Serpion
06. Hunt For The Mountebank
07. Red Eyed Albino
08. No More Giant Octopussies
Fredrik Bolzann (Vocals/Guitar)
Lo Klav (Bass)
Niko Lass (Drums)
French band formed in 2011 who mix psychedelia and stoner influences to create their doom laden music.
Their latest album mixes pagan chants and aggressive trance like passages split into eight consciousness-expanding tracks, thus creating a dangerous expedition into the nether regions of esoteric doom metal, filled with strange mind-altering plants, low frequencies and rites of strange cults.
This album pretty much ticks every box when it comes to well executed Doom.
From the opening haunting chant it becomes a relentless demonstration of power through fuzzed out guitar, mournful vocals, solid bass work and pounding drum patterns.
But there is clearly more to this bands take on the genre, for one thing it stays away from the often typical and tired sounds of bands trying to be some sort of Sabbath clone.
Take ‘Lucifer’s Fire’ with its feedback and distorting intro mixed with atmospheric guitar, then rest of the music kick’s in, yet retains a certain hint of early Celtic Frost, half way through the music breaks down to a different rhythm with added ambient backing and what sounds like keyboards.
Each song is given this amazing raw yet refined production, simply put, this is a perfect modern Doom album.
Rating 10/10
For Fans Of: Electric Wizard, Cathedral, Serpent Venom, Witchsorrow, Triptykon
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