Aleph Null - Nocturnal (2014)
Nocturnal
starts off with a squeal of feedback that lasts just a second before
they pull the floor out and drop the listener into a pit of heavy
resonance. It's a neat trick and a great introduction, and one that
does an excellent job of setting the stage for the rest of the
album's churning waves and swirling clouds of smoke and foggy haze.
To say that it's heavy psychedelia would be a serious understatement,
and they do a great job of blending '70s-inspired touches and
progressions into the knee-crushing weight of modern heaviness with
the amps turned up and fuzzed out. There's a nice subtle menace to
the track titles, which include memorable names like “Muzzle of a
Sleeping God”, “Backward Spoken Rhymes”, and the implicit
violence of “Roman Nails”.
Along the course of the
album, the doom elements begin to stand out more and more, gradually
taking over the album to culminate in the 15-minute, two-part title
track, which opens with some subdued chords that sound like they
should be playing over footage of a funeral at night. On its way to
that destination, the hard grooving, treacle-thick breakdowns, and
massive drum rolls serve up more than enough tasty, chunky, and
well-baked doom for any heavy psych or stoner metal fan to fill their
ears, several times over. Excellent stuff, don't miss out on this one.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of;
Celophys, Olde Growth, Necronomicon (Brazil), Alice In Chains, Acid
King
~
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