Daytripper – The Alchemist

 

 

Daytripper – The Alchemist
Glory or Death Records – 2025
Metal, Doom, Sludge, Stoner
Rated: ****

We are honored to present to you, in a few hours… The FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Daytripper’s The Alchemist! Out on October 24th through Glory Or Death Records we thank Good Boy PR for the opportunity to share this shimmering doom beauty with you all today! 

For with these four The Alchemist tracks, Daytripper transmutes raw elements into sonic doom gold. Not a mere collection of songs, but a ritual. Four incantations forged in the crucible of Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal. Enriched by blackened essences and hallucinogenic, weedian vapors. 

Opening rites The Alchemist and A New Leaf immediately make clear the band has moved beyond earthly genre conventions. Harsh, infernal vocals clash with hauntingly clean ones. The Scribe Sage conjures guttural growls from deep down in the abyss, while The Seer Sage channels ethereal harmonies, like a mystic invoking the aether. The voices, alchemical opposites, bind the light and shadow into one volatile compound. 

The way the mix sonic reagents is definitely daring. Proto-metal, Prog, Jazz and Drone get mixed through the swirl in a cauldron filled to the brim with doom, sludge, fuzz and feedback. Strange sound drift on its gaseous bulbs, like arcane relics, enriching the otherworldly textures and enhancing the spiritual journey. 

As we progress through Ruinous Opus and Hubris, the music descends deeper into the dark. Lead heavy riffs rumble like ancient incantations and all of it vibrates with seismic force. But even amid this sinking, flashes of psychedelic energy spark like philosopher’s fire, and hand you momentary revelations in the gloom. 

Even with its mere thirty minutes, The Alchemist feels like a fully realized magnum opus. Every note, every passage comes across as the perfect transmutation of sound into something powerful. Chaos turned to order, all focused on bringing you the perfect doom atmosphere. Sonic alchemists indeed, how they turn the base influences into something transcendent. Daytripper has completed their ritual, the legendary substance found and with it turned their sound into nothing short of gold… 

(Written by JK)

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