Number 5

 

 

Number 5

The first big jump. We jump almost hundred sixty points from Clutch on Number 6 to reach Number 5. An album we never got around to mentioning on the HiVe but an earlier album was featured on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2018. The new album reigned supreme on the Doom Charts when it was released in March. And rightfully so, for this Italian foursome delivers ten tracks of wild craftmanship that meanders through the doom landscape as much as it does through black metal terrain; but only using those influences to color their worldly and otherworldly compositions that also include minute and kaleidoscopic takes on blues, jazz, folk, Mediterranean or / and Middle-Eastern sounds. Indeed, we already passed The Otolith which can be qualified as avant-garde and art, and this album can borrow from those same qualifications as well. Did we expect to see so many of you vote for this album? Perhaps not, for it is not the easiest of doom rock albums. On the other hand, you, out there, the fans of everything in the Heavy Underground don’t necessarily want things easy. You want the total experience! And this album give you all that… On Number 5 we find!

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