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..
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Narcosatanicos- Body Cults (Bad Afro Records AFROLP051)
Narcosatanicos is a young 6 piece Danish band playing
quite dark psych noise rock from Århus. This is the bands 3rd
release and a bit of a surprise to have it on the garage rock label, Bad Afro
but cool.. The promo sheet describes it as a sonic mind fuck fueled by bad
acid, paranoia and distortion.. Far out.. Well, yes it is… The album features 7
tracks between 4 and 9mins and length and starts off with the heavy Vulvic
Church. Heavy doom rock, interspersed with a bit of Nik Turner like saxophone
and psyched out guitar. The drums are very thrashy and noisy in the mix. Far
out…. Vile is a bit more punk, think a
heavy psych version of Inner City Unit! Check out the video below. Mania lowers the intensity slightly at
the start but the mania and sonic assault continues. The vocals on this track
and all the others are mixed really low so you can really not make out what he
sings or screams unless you really listen hard. It is more for sonic overload.
Television Dreams is more hypnotic and has this spaced out repeated section
that you can really get lost in.Matamoro,
an instrumental track, really slows things down with the focus on the long
saxophone solo while the rest of the 2 guitars, violin, just space out and make
trippy stuff over the slow bass and drum rhythm. At 5mins a heavy riff kicks in
and they go totally mad and psyched out at the end.. Intense. Void Kink brings
back the darkness and vocals. Bliss ends the bad trip with a crazy sax driven
madness but this drops down at 2mins and a cool bass and drum groove kicks in
and some nice panned instruments fly back and forth across the sound scape. It
builds up in a crazy way… If you dig bands like Domovoyd, Dark Buddha Rising, …
please give this Danish act a listen..
This is for sure the bands
first masterpiece and a hell of a dark trip if you are stoned. Wow……
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