Album
Type:
Album
Date
Released:
May 08th
2015
Label:
Svart
Records
Domovoyd
- Domovoyd - Track Listing
01. Domovoyage
02. Ambrosian
Perfume
03. Caustic
Afterglow
04. Mystagogue
05. Amor Fati
06. Vivid Insanity
Members:
Oskar Tunderberg -
clamor, low frequencies
Niko Lehdontie -
oscillations, low frequencies
Dmitry Melet - lower
frequencies
Axel Solimeis -
pulse
Bio:
Echoing guitars from
the grooves of distant space, Domovoyd drone forth their debut album
"Oh Sensibility." Detonated in the year 2010, the band has
risen to the forefront of the Finnish Underground. Masters of dark,
hypnotic, sprawling hazed-out doom, their music is a flaming
celebration of the psychedelic arts from the temples of Hawkwind to
Matt Pike's altar of the riff. Capturing the live-energy that has
electrified audiences with their unique, heavy dose of rhythmic
sludge, Oh Sensibility is an album that drone heads and doom freaks
cannot afford to miss.
Swilling the world
about in their mouths and spitting it through a cosmic spiral,
Domovoyd know how to traverse time and space, and have the necessary
intoxicating ingredients to take you there. Saddle up your space
rocket and say goodbye to your sensibilities, as Domovoyd, smoking
long dead galaxies in their wake, blast you into the furthest reaches
of beyond.
Review:
The
fine people of Svart have delivered the goods once more with this
eponymous LP from Domovoyd. The young Finnish quartet barely look old
enough to legally drive let alone be crafting a monumental second
album of super-heavy psychedelic rock with a strong retro flavour.
“Domovoyd” is bookended by two monstrous journeys into the outer
limits; the aptly named “Domovoyage” and “Vivid Insanity”.
“Domovoyage”
kicks off with a menacing cloud of Velvet-Underground-style droning
violins, establishing an uneasy atmosphere before the band enters the
fray and establishes some flange-heavy vibes. Proceedings gradually
get fuzzier with more searing leads coming to the fore before the
whole track unexpectedly goes up several gears, launching into a
furious gallop towards the stratosphere. Vocals make their appearance
for the first time, giving the overall feel of Jus Oborn fronting a
tooled-up Hawkwind.
Just
when you think that Domovoyd have reached a plateau of psychedelic
perfection, they manage to find even higher gears, cranking up the
intensity and dropping some seriously crunching riffage. The vocals
match the fury of the music, giving the impression of Matt Pike at
full tilt, trapped in a wind tunnel. Things calm down a little after
this only for the band to begin the whole journey again, even more
exhilarating second time round. As opening tracks go, 2015 will have
to try pretty hard to rival this onslaught.
The
album ends in similarly epic fashion with the 17 minute monster
“Vivid Insanity”. Beginning in sparse, tranquil fashion as the
band lock into a lazy, hypnotic groove haunted by the same buzzing
violins that started the record. The peace is shattered by frantic
heaviness, the band building up a head of steam before lurching into
treacle-thick riffage to end the album on a satisfyingly doomy note.
Although
these two behemoths offer the highlights of “Domovoyd”, there’s
plenty of fun to be had from the tracks in between. In particular,
“Mystagogue” does a fine impression of prime Electric Wizard
which continues into “Amor Fati” which adds a bit of the frantic
garage rock of The Heads to the mix to fine effect.
“Domovoyd”
is a fine effort from this exhilarating young band, a perfect mix of
classic psychedelic rock and modern heavy sounds that is sure to
stick in the mind long enough to bother 2015’s end-of-year lists.
Words
by Charlie Butler
Thanks
to Nathan and Svart Records for the promo. Domovoyd will be available
to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl from Svart Records from May 8th 2015
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