Atomic Vulture – Pilgrims Of The Sun
Self released – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Space, Psych, Instrumental
Rated: ****
As we inch closer to the deadline for YOUR lists for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2024. Namely, before Saturday December 14th, 8.00 CET. We decided to deep dive into that folder full of albums we desperately had wanted to mention this year. We wrote about something like 250 albums and EP’s this year. But in that folder, there are still some 400 more that we had wanted to bring into your peripheral vision. And we are saddened that we will never get to that… But well, besides trying to keep up with all the new ones coming out, we’re now trying to bring into the spotlight one from every month passed that we unfortunately did not mention during the month they were released.
The new Atomic Vulture album Pilgrims Of The Sun came out in June and is a new chapter of the space and stoner rocking chronicle the three from Brugge, Belgium started some ten years ago. This stage aims to bring that instrumental ruckus you know they are capable of a bit coarser and grittier in comparison to the Moving Through Silence album from three years ago. But there is still enough space, psych and prog like meandering to let your imagination run wild. Highly atmospheric opening The Landing sets you down on a distant planet, fuzzy and groovy, the guitar paints a picture of danger and of an adventure about to commence. It continues in Alpha Wave, that immediately sets itself up to move and move you. Blissful guitar tones left to drift among the debris and effects that lead up to a final home run stretch of riffage. Ad Astra ups the stoner rock and rams through the atmosphere at full speed, while a more Eastern touched motif is elongated and slowly allowed to return in full form. Add that more jazz noodling in Black Blizzard and you can understand that the Atomic Vulture three still try to find new avenues to traverse after so many years. Atomic Vulture, devotees of the riff, worshippers of the groove and explorers of space.
(Written by JK)
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