Phased are
an underground Doom trio based in Basel, Switzerland. They have been playing
for 15 years and have released a number of albums and EPs over the years. This new full length has the band slowing
down a bit and becoming more spacey and psychedelic than in the past. The CD is about 40mins and features 7 numbers
starting off with Seed of Misery. This track at first reminded me a lot of St
Vitus. Some really cool guitar stuff and a long spaced out ending before
another heavy doom riff arrives with Burning Paradigm but first it starts quite
slow, mysterious and spacey. Very hypnotic and psychedelic. Love the laugh at
the end. Eternal Sleep has a pretty familiar doom riff but the vocals are
really creepy. Into the Gravity Well is a very spaced out track with a lot of
strange sounds, effected guitar et… Far out..
Son of the Sun starts very slowly with a multilayered guitar line before
the rest of the band joins in the doom ritual. This track has a long phazer effected guitar
section and some other sounds layered in making it quite psychedelic and it has
a trippy ending. The Etched starts with a sample, “I am a rotten bastard, I
admit it”, sample, like Church of Misery uses. A very moody track with slow and
heavy and it goes through several movements of doom, no guitar solos in this
one. The Atavistic has a freeky vocal and starts off a bit like Electric
Funeral with the wah guitar. Still a characteristic Phased sound but more doomy
and some different psychedelic touches that were more buried on previous records.
Cool stuff..
This is a site where I post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off since 1984. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well. I recently moved to Portugal so please request the new address and do not send any music to Denmark anymore. Tak..
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