Stoner HiVe: Clouds Taste Satanic

zondag 9 maart 2025

Clouds Taste Satanic – Birmingham 2024

Clouds Taste Satanic – Birmingham 2024
Self-released – 2025
Rock, Metal, Doom, Prog, Instrumental
Rated: ****

The new digital four tack, vinyl three track, release Birmingham 2024 is a ‘no overdub document of the bands set list while on tour in Europe that year.’ The band is Clouds Taste Satanic and the album therefor grabs parts from their latest album 79 A.E., their 2019 album Evil Eye and their sophomore album from 2015 called Your Doom Has Come. That last part is the song Out Of The Abyss and is included in the download once the three track vinyl is purchased. It’s the first of a ‘Live In The Studio’ series and serves indeed as a document to the state of the band at that moment in time. The live feel and chosen quarter part of the Collision part followed by three quarters of Reclamation turn it into an entirely different animal, often pushing a more doom approach towards the surface. An extra hazy atmosphere, perhaps courtesy of Hellfire Studios in Birmingham, or because of a different pedal or two, make all the tracks more vaporous and trance inducing. Pagan Worship, pehaps becoming less ominious and more psychedelic. Deepening the chords struck within you and chiming that legendary bell, so as to give reference to the legends that came before. If the Live In The Studio series continues on throughout different studios across the globe, constantly bringing to live, and bearing the state current state of Clouds Taste Satanic, this might just turn out to be the series that every instrumental doom enthusiast needs to follow. This first chapter is worth it and shows a lot of promise for renewal..