Slomatics - Canyons [Blue Vinyl gatefold]

Cat. no: BWR078LP
Format: LP Blue Vinyl gatefold
Barcode: 9507845186834
Release Date: 13 Dec 2024
Genre: Hard Rock and Metal

Since 2005, Belfast based space- sludge juggernauts Slomatics have scoured the cosmic plains for doomy inspiration. The universe is a vast place, and with their seventh album Canyons released in 2019, Slomatics haven't run out of inspiration. 

Every Slomatics record tells a story. Their 2016 release Future Echo Returns was an earthy beast, dense and direct. Bone- rattling heaviness in the form of fuzz- laden doom was the main tool used on that record; in my review of that release I desired more tenderness, more humanity.

Canyons is more expansive, an exploration of the far reaches of the universe. Less muddy, less bludgeoning, Canyons belongs to something spiritual - the over-amplifed noise slabs are present, but they're packaged differently, sent through vistas of the melancholic and less abrasive variety.

Tracks: Gears Of Depair / Cosmic Guilt / Seven Echoes / Telemachus, My Son / Beyond The Canopy / Arms Of The Sun / Mind Fortresses On Theia / Organic Caverns II