Number 14

 

 

Number 14

Sixteen points. We jump sixteen points from KG&LW’s thrash metal odyssey to arrive at Number 14, where we find two albums by two bands. One of which has already been featured on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2023. Which is not the first time it has happened; King Buffalo managed to do the same for instance. But it still feels very special and seems like a testament to the fact that whatever the band is doing, it is definitely doing it right! It will move you with its cinematic ability and will give you respite in a world full of turmoil. Their version of cosmic doom, their high ambience of heaviness and the knowledge to go grandiose whenever the song calls for it, has turned their fourth full-sized album, this six-track adventure into a space you will want to inhabit and the sounds will inevitably inhabit you. The other album, sits on the opposite side of the scale. When you’ve been a household name for all the heavies and return with a new album after seven years, you know its gonna cause a bang. In this case it rang out like gunfire across deserted foggy streets. A story driven expose on (their favorite) murderers, serial killers and cult leaders and with the original founding vocalist back to tell those stories. They churn their doom into something sludgy and yet incorporating enough Sabbath touches to make these songs go boom. Explosive upon release back around June, your ears might still be ringing… 

On Number 14 we find…   

REZN – Solace

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Church Of Misery – Born Under A Mad Sign

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REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi on Number 19

Church Of Misery Homepage

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Church Of Misery Bandcamp

Rise Above Records