Appalachian Death Cult – Welcome To The Cult

 

 

Appalachian Death Cult – Welcome To The Cult
Self released – 2023
Rock, Stoner, Doom, Metal, Psych
Rated: ***

There are plenty of cults within our little niche called the Heavy Underground. And all of them want to welcome you into their midst of course. You know, so they can steal your money, your blood and your soul! It would not be a cult if they didn’t. But there are few that are as inviting as that sparkling new one out of the Johnson, Tennessee called Appalachian Death Cult. That’s right, they’ve gone as far as calling their debut four track EP Welcome To The Cult. Released almost a year ago, they deliver their truth in the form of some seriously cultivated and misty stoner doom. Hazy and psychedelic by default it shotguns their smokey tunes direct into your lungs. The three tracks featured on their bandcamp site (yes, there’s a secret fourth track) all share the same denominator, namely: drugs! Odes to shrooms, to getting high and living high are all there, filled with muggy riffs and sloth like rhythms, these tracks are there for you to consume and to space out to. The radio and speech snippets are excellent, but that banjo is pure heaven! Especially on opening track Bag of Shrooms, the way it trickles through the entire track, sheer perfection and a ticket to the Appalachian Paradise. Or at least as close as you can get to that by dipping into a bag of something and listening to Appalachian Death Cult. I feel warm and fuzzy inside, yes, and I feel entirely welcome...

(Written by JK)

Bandcamp

Facebook

Instagram