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Artist : Sun of Grey
Album : Outerworld
Label : Mscharmed Records
Year : 2020
Genre : Metal
Encoder : LAME
Playtime : 43:35
Source : WEB
Bitrate : 320 kbps
Size : 105.8MB MB
URL : Music Streaming Service
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1. Dark Souls 7:18
2. Jar of Leeches 6:11
3. Lucifer Smiled 8:24
4. Outerworld 8:38
5. Silent Screams 5:33
6. Disease 7:31
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3 piece groove heavy stoner doom with a nod to classic rock.
Sun of Grey
Colorado Springs, Colorado
"Dystopian doom of the highest order" is how Desert Psychlist described
Colorado's trio Sun of Grey's self-titled debut EP "Sun of Grey" and considering
that it only contained two songs that is some praise indeed. Now you might think
after garnering, not only plaudits from Desert Psychlist but also many of those
who's opinions really matter in this scene, a full album would follow in due
course. Unfortunately that was not the case and it has been a full three years
since "Sun of Grey" surfaced to melt our faces and shudder our spinal cords with
its brace of doomic delights. Well today we are stoked to announce that the long
awaited release of something new from Sun of Grey is over, so please take your
seats and buckle yourselves in as we will soon be departing for "Outerworld".
"Dark Souls" opens Sun of Grey's new opus and although not the heaviest of the
tracks "Outerworld" has to offer it is nonetheless pretty weighty, its slow
juddering groove pushed by booming bass and pummeling percussion is fractured
with swirling guitar motifs and is taken to another level by a mixture of
monotonic chants and bellowed growls. "Jar of Leeches" follows with
bassist/vocalist Freddy Allen and guitarist Ian Hopkins combining on a low, slow
doomic intro decorated with clever percussive touches courtesy of Jim Merz that
then segues into a fist pumping anthem built around another juddering groove
with Allen telling us in bear like tones to "be careful what you crave for".
"Lucifer Smiled" is up next and employs all sorts of clever tricks and effects
to fill out its lumbering gait and add a lysergic aspect to its sonic impact.
Title track "Outerworld" takes the lysergic elements of the previous track and
expands on them by adding spoken narrative, clean hazy vocal melodies, droning
feedback and lashings of swirling spaced out guitar while at the same time still
managing to remain thunderous and heavy while following track, "Silent Screams",
ups both the ante and the tempo and finds the band jamming a chugging
Sabbathesque groove around an old school verse/chorus/verse dynamic. Sun of Grey
bring proceedings to a fitting end with "Disease", an epic sounding opus that is
sedately paced but hugely powerful, its low, slow rhythmic dynamic coupled with
its hazy monastic vocal melodies and eastern tinted guitar textures ramp up the
songs intensity and impact tenfold and in doing so closes out what is a hugely
impressive album on massive high.
We were served just a taste of what Sun of Grey could deliver with their debut
EP, a sort of starter for the main course, with "Outerworld" the band dish up
that main course with all the trimmings, and here we are not talking nouveau
cuisine but something a whole lot meatier, heartier and wholly more satisfying!
Check it out ...
https://sunofgrey.bandcamp.com/
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... while we wait for retail to arrive ...