Album Type:
Album
Date Released:
July
1st
2014
Label:
Self Released
Geomagnetic
Hallucinations - track listing:
1.Layers 08:11
2.Blowholes 05:01
3.A Better Place
06:39
4.Interplanetary
Vibrations 09:24
5.Sulphur Assassins
05:13
6.Don't Ask When
04:56
Band Members
Bres - Rythmic
Pulses
Jon K -
Psychoacoustic Timbre
Moose - Sub Octaves
and Communication
Niallo - Phase
Changes
Review:
It
was around this time last year that I found myself standing in front
of a little stage in Dublin’s then “go to” heavy metal venue,
The Pint. I’d made the journey up to good ol’ capital city to see
Belfast’s Slomatics open up a fucking black hole right in front of
my face, and that they did, as they always do, but they weren’t
alone. Headless Kross were the headliners of a sickeningly
appropriate line-up featuring Slomatics, Lurch, and Wild Rocket. So
I’m there, facing the stage, body frozen in Wild Rocket’s
suspension beam, unable to move an inch, forced to watch them glide
through electric freak-out after electric freak-out as a projector
screen flashes hypnotic images before our eyes, and I’m thinking;
“What have you done to my brain? This is fantastic. Where am I?”
Listening
to Wild Rocket’s Geomagnetic Hallucinations brings me right back to
that venue on that very night. I remember vividly the hyperactive
rock n’ roll space opera taking place on the stage, from start to
finish. This album sees Wild Rocket’s electricity bottled, no added
sugar, and it still tastes sweet a year later. I’ll try and keep
the sci-fi references to a minimum.
Geomagnetic
Hallucinations is ceaseless intensity and psychedelia with a
larger-than-life, big sound that propels it far above the countless
generic stoner/psychedelic slabs released every year. There’s no
rehashed Kyuss tunes here, sorry folks, you can find that anywhere.
Laggard Doom riffage and wailing space-synth meets Punk rock in
hyperdrive on this forty minute joyride through the cosmic plasma
pool, and you may be scraping your brains off your shirt by its end.
The
album’s opener, “Layers”, sets the scene for you with some
sluggish, doped-up, desert-evoking Doom, but that’s just the
take-off sequence and after that it’s practically non-stop “I’m
sweating fucking bullets, lads, get me off the wall” intensity.
The record does take a detour from the helter-skelter on its longest
track, “Interplanetary Vibrations”, however, offering up some
riff that would fry the heads off Flower Travellin’ Band. For the
most part though, this record is controlled chaos, every instrument
bleeding into one another and feeding the sonic engine that drives it
forward. Album closer “Don’t Ask When” shows one last ditch
effort by the band to bum rush the sun, merging all of what makes the
album great into one (just under) five minute sustained explosion.
In
a few words; I’m excited about Geomagnetic Hallucinations. It’s
an exciting record that never becomes a chore to listen to and offers
up a few surprises along the way. It’s the sound of a band that’s,
hopefully, ready to burst out of Dublin’s chest and brainwash their
way to wherever the fuck it is they want to go. See you when the
smoke clears.
Check
the Band from Links Below
BandCamp
– Available to buy on DD/VInyl
Written
by Liam Doyle
