Album Reviews
Review-Alunah-Call of Avernus
Alunah’s first full length, Call of Avernus, is the perfect way to end my run of reviews for 2010. This album is what happens when exceptional stoner rock and sexy doom are mixed and topped with badass female vocals. The album begins, Living Fast in an Ancient Land, with the doom as doomy as doom can be. The track then kicks into fuzzy Fu Manchu guitars and the tough but sultry sounds of Soph. The title track is second on the list and is again fully doomified. Soph’s vocals dance with the spaced out beats and fuzzy sound. Sounds of Sun keeps the doom/stoner rock locomotive blazing full bore. Full of thickness and psychedelic breakdowns.
Magik Lantrn is a sweet spaced out journey that leads us into the drum smashing, bass hammering doom of Eternal Sea. This 8 minute plus track is an ocean of music. Beginning with bone crushing and slipping into an anti-gravity atmosphere. This track shows off what is slightly peppered in the rest of album…Alunah plays some of the best damn…I mean…the fucking perfect mix of doom and stoner rock. Dance of Dionysus picks up the pace then tears it back down in a beautiful manner. The vocals echo and reverb from ear to ear. Circle of Stone is another epic track of 7 minutes dedicated to playing the spectrum of doom; from soft bumps to thundering thumps.
Higher grinds in with the heaviness of Weedeater then proceeds to catchy stoner. The albums final track, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, is so fuzzy that I want to pet it, so stoney I want to smoke it, and so doomy that I want to follow it as it destroys the land. This album snuck in to the world just in time to devour 2010. This album goes on my top 10 of the year with ease.
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MOOD:DOOM
7 Comments
Wow. You must have listened to only 10 albums this year and needed a last one. This is generic crap. Just because you review it doesn’t mean you have to like it.
December 29, 2010 at 9:58 am
Well if you didn’t like it, that’s cool. There are some people who actually like the album. So be it. Btw, our policy is if we don’t like it, we don’t review it.
December 29, 2010 at 3:09 pm
“The albums final track, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, is so fuzzy that I want to pet it, so stoney I want to smoke it, and so doomy that I want to follow it as it destroys the land.”
That’s a great line.
December 29, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Cheers for the review bill and glad you like it, some may think it generic but were proud of it as a debut. Soph/Alunah
December 29, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Cheers bill, some may think it generic crap but were proud of it. Soph/Alunah
December 29, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Sorry – phone goin mental, didnt mean to leave two comments x
December 29, 2010 at 5:29 pm
As a reviewer of stoner and doom, I listen to dozens of albums a month. Through bandcamp, myspace, record labels, etc…and through all those bands…Alunah’s new LP is something that I truly enjoy. To call it generic means someone didn’t really listen to the album or maybe…just maybe…different taste in good solid music.
Soph and the gang…be very proud!
December 31, 2010 at 2:59 pm