Dopelord - Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult (2014)
The latest album from Poland's own
Dopelord is a very solid offering of occult doom with some love of
'70s ephemera swirled in alongside the mighty riffs and mega-heavy
grooves. More than solid, the album packs a high amount of content
that will sound familiar to those acquainted with what the band
refers to as 'magical herbs', though clearly imprinted with the
band's own sense of things. They find a more-than-happy medium
between the blueprints of Black Sabbath and the more aggressive edge
of modern fuzz-and-film-samples storms from groups like Electric
Wizard and Dopethrone, then dive in head-first, kicking up splashes
of psychedelic doom with enough black-light energy infused to make
your speakers start to glow.
As the album goes on, things start
getting a bit more sinister, with the middle track, “Acid
Trippin'”, serving as the catalyst for things to start going into
unbridled madness. The second-to-last track, “Green Plague”,
sinks deeper and deeper into psychedelic cascades of guitar-tone
feedback reverbing into and over itself, with loops squealing and
cycling in and out of existence. Finally, it comes down to “Pass
The Bong”, the longest track on the album, which measures in at a
knee-wobbling 11-and-a-half minutes, but makes use of every last
second in that run to make the most of turning the wildness up even
higher.
As the band's second album, it's
extremely impressive; they've got their feet planted firmly where
they want them, and a strong personality shaping the various
influences from which they draw. Don't miss out on hearing this one,
as you'll be seeing it in plenty of '2014 Album Of The Year' lists in
the months to come. Just get yourself a copy, kick back, and let the
weed cult take you away.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Electric
Wizard, Black Sabbath, Dopethrone, Tons, Megasus
~
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