Album Type: Full Length
Date
Released:
17/02/2018
Label: Marijunaut
Records
Sativa Root
manages to sound fresh and original, doing a doom and sludge infused sound that
seems more methodical and strong than meditative. The absolutely ripping "Morlock"
makes it clear Sativa Root is worth checking out if you get a chance to see
them live. Powerful stuff.
“Oneiroid” CD//DD
track listing
1.
Intro
2.
Bloodrigs
3.
Funeral of the Witch
4.
Deathclaw
5.
Tabarnak
6.
Morlock
The Review:
2018
has begun with the announcement of a slew of zombie films. Day of the Dead: Bloodline, Patient
Zero, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
and the Rise of the Living Dead are
just four of the movies joining World War
Z 2 this year. This horror genre is polarizing – you love it, or you hate
it – but it is indisputably popular worldwide with audiences. And the latest
evolution, spawned largely by 28 Days
Later, of chaotic, sprinting monsters, is similarly rattling – not just
because such is a departure for creator George A. Romero's vision, but because
the very idea of flesh-eating furies chasing you at full gallop and stoppable
only with headshots feels completely disturbing. Shambling undead are the stuff
of black and white movies. Raving beasts are the stuff of colorful nightmares.
If
you close your eyes and think of one of these new incarnations on film, with
snarling, scrambling dirt-and-blood-covered maniacs coming for you, it is a
guarantee that the zombie apocalypse would be soundtracked by "Oneiroid," the new album by Sativa Root.
Instrumental
metal is arguably some of the purest of extreme music out there, because it is
solely about the concoctions the bands put together. Mood is determined by your
imagination rather than lyrics. With Austrian doom/sludge trio Sativa Root,
the music is some of the more immersive metal you will find, as it is
absolutely claustrophobic from "Bloodrigs"
(the introductory cut is ultra-short) onward. Power chords, massive drums and
muddy bass rule the day from the start, and then into "Funeral of the Witch."
There
are many really great instrumental metal acts – Major Kong pops to mind
immediately – and Sativa Root takes its place among them,
putting in impressive work on "Deathclaw."
Similarly, a track like "Tabarnak"
is immense in the ground it covers and the sheer quality of what the band
offers. Sativa
Root manages to sound fresh and original, doing a doom and sludge
infused sound that seems more methodical and strong than meditative. The
absolutely ripping "Morlock"
makes it clear Sativa
Root is worth checking out if you get a chance to see them live.
Powerful stuff.
