Warcoe – Upon Tall Thrones

 

 

Warcoe – Upon Tall Thrones
Ripple Music / Morbid and Miserable Records – 2025
Metal, Classic, Doom, Proto
Rated: *****

I might have passed by their houses. Drove passed their rehearsal place or the studio they recorded in when I travelled from the south of Italy to the north back in June. We actually stopped a night over near Cattolica and could have easily travelled to Pesaro to meet the three from Warcoe. Well, and perhaps we should have. Next year perhaps? But this year we could have been the first to hear the new tunes that made it to the Upon Tall Thrones album. A step forward once again for the Italian trio. Not just in songwriting and production. But also, because they signed to Ripple Music and Morbid and Miserable Redcords, and with the trust of those labels behind you, you know you are on to something big… Something that might make a splash… 

Upon Tall Thrones will be arriving on September 26th and the nine tracks and almost forty minutes of Warcoe will do wonders for all proto metal, doom metal and classic metal loving freaks out there. There’s so much of the tried and tested heaviness on here that it’s impossible to not to feel the jive and the groove of this beautiful doom record. But then there are those minute different touches. This is the spice of Upon Tall Thrones for me personally. The garage touch on Spheres with a guitar that reminds of Black Keys or Bud Spencer Blues Explosion or the Flame In Your Hand track that brings in something good out of the Dungeon Synth genre. Which isn’t easy in my humble opinion. Or Brown Witch, with its stoner trucking and grunge fuzzing. And the vocals throughout, drawling and slightly nasal, offer this minor cult element and turns every vocal moment into a ritual you will want to be a part off. There are so many ‘or’s’ and ‘and’s’ to sum up, cause even though I started with the remark that there is so much ‘tried and tested heaviness’ on this album, the Warcoe three class up every part of that. They’ve gobbled up all of their influences and sneaked them in here or there, giving every track that silver shining edge and the entire Upon Tall Thrones album something mercurial. Indeed, an album laced with mercury and unpredictable touches throughout. This will cause ripples for a very long time… 

(Written by JK)

Album drops on September 26th, but you can listen to two singles right now...




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