AAWKS – On Through The Sky Maze
Black Throne Productions – 2025
Rock, Metal, Doom, Stoner, Psych, Black
Rated: ****
(Heavy On The Cosmic) still spins regularly and so does that split with Aiwass, but it took me some time to come to grips with the new AAWKS album On Through The Sky Maze. It’s the vocals. The death grunts, the blackened howls. They’ve always had their own singular approach to the vocals, but this is another step in an entirely different direction. It’s been out now for some three weeks and I reckon most of you lovely freaks out there have been getting lost in On Through The Sky Maze for all the days since you heard the ominous church bell tolling. Entirely gritty and proto, the doom comes in mucilage form. Turning every riff and rhythm into a sticky extrapolation of a bad trip or demon possession. Opener Celestial Magick sets the tone and offers up no apology for the manner in which they disrupt your energy flow, switching up the groove many times over and distorting it with the guttural disintegrating rumbles. Following Death Trip continues on in the same vein but offers a bit more of cosmic energy to surf on, seventies, acid colored and sporting lovely bass work. Lost Dwellers goes into that territory even more, turning the electric kool-aid into a haunting affair, setting it up with a scary snippet, a ready to rumble rhythm, before breaking it up again and shifting gears. The dynamics, arrangement and breaks reeks of brilliance and the confidence to infuse it all with some stoner swagger is truly magnificent. And you’re not even half way through… If the maze was present and swirling on (Heavy On The Cosmic), it’s has definitely taken on M C Escher proportions for the new album. A psychedelic doom labyrinth that keeps on changing and shifting, only ever alluding to a center or an exit, but getting lost and dwelling forever inside is all you will ever want anyway… AAWKS is back with a different spin on its very own and twisted reality and it will take possession of your entire being…
(Written by JK)
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Black Throne Productions
Review of (Heavy On The Cosmic)
Review of Aawks / Aiwass – The Eastern Scrolls
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