Besvärjelsen – Atlas
Magnetic Eye Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Prog, Doom, Psych
Rated: *****
Sure, we know. This album has been out for months! In fact, Atlas was released in May. But sometimes, you just forget how much you love an album until you start spinning it again! And again! And you wonder what you wrote back then when the album was released, and you scour your own little blog and find out you never actually did! What the hell!?! And Besvärjelsen would have surely made the Number One spot of the Doom Charts back then, if a certain other album had not been released during that month. Cause these ten tracks have every aspect of the heavy rock we all love so dearly. And Besvärjelsen will surely make the Year End list of myself and every heavy rock loving fiend I know! So, we should rectify our error and write a few words of praise… Besvärjelsen was formed in 2014 by members from bands like Dozer, Greenleaf, Afgrund, Lastkaj and V. And they released their first five track called Villfarelser a year later. Vallmo and Frost followed in 2018 and 2019, but with ten track Atlas they dwarf both of those releases. Imploring ever more influences from every nook and cranny of music you can think of; the ten tracks take you on a journey, that feels like you’re just rocking out to some awesome heaviness one minute and then to some earthshattering prog influenced album the next. For there’s an arc here and a setting, but many of the songs can also be listened to individually. Opting for grandiose and gravitas, the songs all have this highly organic feel and natural psych touch. Whirl winding, maelstrom inducing, are all words that fit the bill when you talk about Atlas. Closing track Dividing Minds, might actually be one of the best that uses that whirling dervish approach, it will perform miracles, it has supernatural powers, and through all that physical exertion you cannot help but go through while listening to Dividing Minds, you shall attain a true ecstatic trance! Or start with that proper blast off, first track, stoner, desert, highly energetic and propellant Cardinal Ride. Hooks abundant, riffs galore, the Cardinal Ride sets up the pieces. And by the time second track Acheron arrives you’ve been checked and mated. That starting guitar, those pounding drums, the snake biting its own tail riff… It has to be done right… For that’s when that enigmatic voice starts, for the vocals provided by Lea Amling Alazam sit exactly right on Atlas. You already heard it on that opening chorus of Cardinal Ride, but when it drifts and slides across Acheron you will feel blessed, and chills will run across you body. And you will know that all of this… Was the joy of admiration and of Besvärjelsen ability, and of the listener growing together…
(Written by JK)
And since we’re about to do some insane Friday Freebie action over on the Doom Charts site… Let’s do a little taster here as well… And give you a handful of codes for Atlas, this awesome Magnetic Eye Records release…Besvärjelsen my new, old, continues addiction!
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