The Canadian four piece band from
Toronto, Holy Mount, are back with a new record on White Dwarf (Germany). Side A starts off with a short intro piece
(Ground Water) and straight into a heavy doomy track, Division, featuring a
quite ethereal vocal (can’t really understand much of what is being sung). The
sound production has quite a bit of reverb on it giving it a special sound. Later
the track really speeds up and rocks out.
Basalt has a pretty cool stoner rock like groove and this eerie feeling
as if something bad is going to happen. Great energy in this track. Reminds me of Glowsun at times. Omni Cide is
a cool and very dynamic track with heavy, dirt parts and cleaner guitar parts
but still a pretty heavy crushing sound at times. Side B starts off with Blackened Log. This
features some synthesizer (right channel) at the beginning along with the
guitar riff (left channel) before the drums kick in and later the bass. They
almost get into a heavy trance on this track with the drums and bass just
rocking on and this sort of post rock dreamy guitar lines that are repeated
over and over in the background. Blood
Cove (hear below) is a slower and more moody track with a dark brooding feeling and a bit of
a distorted bass and doomy horror film like vibe. I really like the stoney wah
solo on this track at the end. The album ends with the title track, The
Drought. This one features a more clear guitar sound and is a slow almost like
ballad to start but then gets more heavy and intense as it grows. The ending is
pretty intense. I miss some cool lead guitar at times as when out of riff mode
it is all pretty simple melodic stuff and often does not really take me to the
next level. Overall, a very cool album and great to see the band grow from the
previous releases. I think this is their best stuff yet.
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