Supernaut – Souls Awaken

 

 

Supernaut – Souls Awaken
Self released – 2022
Rock, Speed, Metal, Punk, Stoner
Rated: ***

Skate or die! Get high or die! It’s the Greeeheeen, straight from the Santa Cruz, California scene. In fact, it was The Green, it was that album released back in 2019 that made us pay attention to the Californian three named Supernaut. Well, the three are back with a new release called Souls Awaken. Upon which they awaken the beast, the speedrock animal, the skate, the metal and all that good faster side of heavy stoner with opening track Resist The Urge. Speedballing it for the finish, never letting up and giving off quite a calling card. A great transition into Ravens Call, which shifts down a gear, harkens back to their first self-titled release from 2017, with more proto prog and proto metal atmospheres. The nitro boost that comes with Ghosts Surround Me give you more of that speed, thrash and absolutely no urge to resist. Headbang you shall! It will go into more prog territory before the song is over though. And this kind of ebb and flow, push and pull continues on throughout the nine tracks on Souls Awaken, with fifth track The Throne Of Atahualpa will tickle every metal loving fiber in your being and over nine-minute-long battleship track Kaleidoscope will indeed spark the super psycho naut mind! It marries their take on prog and psych with metal of all eras and even doom. A kaleidoscopic journey through the metal universe of Supernaut!

(Written by JK)

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