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Artist | 1000mods
Title | Valley Of Sand
Genre | Rock
Source | Vinyl
Label | The Lab Records Rip | 09.13.2015
Catalog | LAB 010 Time | 34:14
Bitrate | 236kbps Size | 57.42mb
Freq | 48.0kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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A1. Valley Of Sand 16:39
B1. 7 Flies 05:12
B2. Navy In Alice 05:19
B3. Track Me 07:04
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1000mods are a quartet from Chiliomodi, Greece, schooled in
the arts of black stoner metal, black imagery, and Black
Sabbath. Their new four song EP entitled Valley of Sand is
essentially a seventeen minute single with three live tracks.
The single (Valley of Sand) is droney, sludgy, and dark
repetitive mood music that slowly builds in dynamics, and I
mean SLOW like a Mogwai record on quaaludes. It begins with
whispery vocals, hovering around a swing drum feel very Bill
Ward, so constantly flowing, it almost doesnÆt feel like a
rock band once you fall into it, but an ambient platform. The
guitars trickle in with blues licks minute by minute while
the rhythm section holds down the groove.
The three live tracks are more upbeat. First, 7 Flies is a
hard rocker with garage rock production akin to those old
MC-5 recordings. So many bands are striving for the sound of
what The Stooges would have offered if they had made another
album directly after Raw Power in the 70s. 1000mods nail it.
Unaffected by modern digitalia, the core ingredient of their
music is raw collision jamming. I would assume this is
chaotic music to witness live in a small club and monstrous
in a arena sized venue. Few bands can pull this off, that
vintage swamp-blues aura. Navy in Alice continues in this
vain, swinging drums, crashing cymbals attacking the beat
like its forceful in spite of itself. The mid-section is
muted pulsing atop screaming vocals that sound like theyre
reverberating through a gargantuan tunnel. About 3/4 into the
song, a symphony of feedback explodes into a ripping guitar
solo, like Tony Iommi through multiple Big Muffs. Track Me
concludes this EP with a sense that this kind of music can
only be produced live. Its too pure to be tracked and
overdubbed in a fancy modern studio. Dueling guitar leads
make way for a staggering vocal presence reminiscent of Iggy
Pops younger days, before he was a mere guttural howl.
1000mods are not a brand new band, but their sound is fresh
and something thats not going to get stale. The more you
listen, the more tripnotic they become. They paint a
visionary picture of sorcery and black magic through their
music, much like their influences, but they have their own
thing when classification is in order. Anyone that wants
raw-as-fuck stoner rock with their morning coffee will get
this.
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