Megatheria – Gateway

 

 

Megatheria – Gateway
Self released – 2023
Instrumental, Post, Rock, Metal, Prog
Rated: ****

Out since the end of May, Gateway, the five-track album by Denver, Colorado, USA trio Megatheria. The trio are experts at combining instrumental post rock with doom metal, and by way of stoner, progressive influences, and a bit of sludge to create this highly emotive atmosphere. It’s perhaps the most accurate word to use for the five tracks on Gateway, atmospheric. For they manage to create an ambiance, that can be so hypnotic and has you transferring the astral plane without you noticing that the next song is already done. The album flows so naturally and progresses through all the segments like a majestic storm of clouds, where the rumbles afar are shouted down by the rolling drums and crashes, as for instance in the beginning of third track Bathysphere. Which also sees them using this seventies copper colored guitar sound to bait the lightning bolts to strike that one bottle set up in the middle of the stage. And you can be sure that they managed to catch it, and watch it whizz around the bottle, it’s the sound you hear in the beginning of fourth track Hibernation. A gradual released ten-minute-long masterpiece, that will never put you to sleep, but instead will electrify your inner being. Gateway, is the debut record by the Megatheria trio, but it sounds like classic jewel, a crowning work…

(Written by JK)

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