Omega Sun – Roadkill

 

Omega Sun – Roadkill
No Profit Recordings – 2023
Stoner, Fuzz, Doom
Rated: *****

We love Slovenia. Been there a couple of times. Climbed Triglav. Actually, saw it pop up on my Facebook as a memory today, coincidence, hell no! Danced with the mayor of Bovec at his famous potato festival. Visited Ljubljana, hang out, over at Metalkova, with the magnificent gentlemen of Carnaval and Jegulja. And then recently we saw all the broadcasts about all the horrible flooding and disasters. After which we also read that the good boys from Omega Sun decided to donate the proceeds from everything they sold on their Bandcamp site to help with the charities that deal with those affected by the floods. Which makes us feel even more ashamed about the fact that we only ever mentioned their 2013 Rehearsal Demo and have since been grooving incredibly hard to their 2017 album Opium For The Masses without so much as a peep about that damn fine album on  the HiVe. But after hitting that play button on the promo for their brand-new Roadkill album that will arrive on September 8th, we cannot let them down again. For the six tracks on the new Roadkill album are pure, unadulterated, atavistic stonerrock, sundried guitar tones and fuzzed out doom. This will take you back to the days of the legends and those parties smack dab in the middle of Palm Desert. And even though, for the most part, the rhythms and the overall speed is slower than that of Kyuss, the psychedelic edge we know from that legendary band is there and so is the voice of bassist and vocalist Igor Kukanja. Indeed, the vocals will remind you of John Garcia from time to time, or quite a lot of times. So, yes, there are definite sound offs to Kyuss, but that’s never a bad thing and in the case of Omega Sun, it is something that just comes naturally. Head on over to the Omega Sun bandcamp site, cause the opener of the album and first single The One, can already be heard and gives you the right kind of ear for what to expect for the entire album. Although, the following track Black Dust, makes all that desert sounding ruckus from The One dirtier and ominous, yet also elegant and full of grace. That first section of The One, slower, more determined to deliver the punch straight to the gut. Those vocals, expertly gliding, sliding across those highly defined guitar lines and that guitar slowly staring to take center stage as the song continues. Not so much building or creating tension, but so wonderfully free, flowing, fluent and it feels like the composition was meant to be a dance in honor of a deranged orchestra of wild nature and tempestuous control. Its essence seems to swirl and spiral, through an uproar of elegance and down tuned madness. And those two sides of the coin are audible on every one of the Roadkill tracks. Sheer excellence, and if there is anything not entirely perfect about all of them, it might only be that the master volume seems a tad low. But that yin and yang, something rough and something velvet, they have going on, will soothe you, the savage beast and all those that love stonerrock, desertrock and doom. Thet third Survive track is yet another perfect example of this. And then they end the Roadkill album with Doomer, the second single, soon to be released. Which, as you might expect, takes the maelstrom down towards the bottom of the bottomless pit, letting go of almost everything smooth and velvet they had going on before this. But then there is that guitar solo, coming to the rescue, lifting the composition back towards a bit of light and towards the beginning of the point of no return. Roadkill is one hell of an album and will surely floor you…

(Written by JK)

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