Torso – Inside

Torso – Inside
StoneFree Records – 2012
Rock, Psychedelics, Stoner
Rated: ****

Formed in the year of our Lord 2009 somewhere on the outskirts of Vienna as an instrumental trio who named themselves after the fabled Aztec king Montezuma. By 2011 the three had become four and with a new drummer the guys felt a new name was required to go forth and Torso would be that name. And now their first full-sized album Inside has been released. Seven intense psychedelic rock tracks that borrow heavily from the progressive rock bands that came after the seventies. It still pays homage to that seventies blues sound but with a more distinct and newer sound. Leaning towards something Rush might have done if they would have gone the way of doom and grimy rock. But even that does not do justice to their very own and honest pitch that keeps resonating somewhere deep in the fibers of your being. Torso, remember that name!

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