Release
date: February 19th
2016. Label: Self Released. Format: DD
The
Yeti Has Landed – Tracklisting
1.The
Yeti Has Landed 16:28
2.Acari
17:35
3.Old
Man 19:21
4.Uppervols
09:06
Band
Members:
Danis Avramidis - Bass
Michael Andresakis - Guitar and Vocals
Fotis Antoniou - Drums
Danis Avramidis - Bass
Michael Andresakis - Guitar and Vocals
Fotis Antoniou - Drums
Review:
In
the realms of stoner rock, epicness is a virtue (epic riffs, epic
length of songs, epic vocals) and you only have to listen to the
genres centrepiece, the masterful Dopesmoker by Sleep to realise
this. The Yeti Has Landed, the new album by Green Yeti follows in
those same epic footprints and while this isn't a single song like
Dopesmoker, the fact that the shortest song on here is over nine
minutes long tells you all need to know. The album only has four
songs on it mind you but they are full of ideas of greatness and
grandeur.
The
Yeti Has Landed starts with the title track and what sounds like the
quaint sound of a dial up modem before a mammoth riff that Matt Pike
would be proud of kicks in and gets this riffed up party started and
it is obvious that Green Yetis influences may be the same as most
stoner rock bands, they are no mere soundalikes and have their own
groove going on.
It
is these grooves together with the riffs, huge that they are that
define the Green Yeti experience and this album is jam packed full of
both of them and the songs are tantamount to massive jams with riff
after riff after riff tearing out and vocals coming in and out of the
songs whenever the band feels like it, especially on second track
Acari which has a massive sounding and brooding intro that lasts for
almost half the song before the huge riffs and the vocals kick in.
The vocals of frontman Michael Andresakis (who is also the bands
guitarist and responsible for the riffs) veer between a low slung
growl and a soaring bellow that is reminiscent of Soundgarden's Chris
Cornell.
The
Green Yeti rhythm section of bassist Danis Avramidis and drummer
Fotis Antoniou hold down the groove on The Yeti Has Landed with
consummate ease, with the bass sounding particularly powerful and
menacing throughout the album especially when the low-end pounds
throughout the mammoth sounding Acari and the albums masterpiece, the
sprawling Old Man, a journey of a song with many twists and turns
from a riff led opening that will get your head banging to a slower
and groovier mid paced section where the Cornell-esque anthemic
vocals soar powerfully and that low-end really kicks in and finally
an electric and eclectic conclusion with an evil Sabbath sounding
riff, this track has it all and flies by despite its vast length.
When
The Yeti Has Landed's brilliant final track, the more mournful and
feedback shrouded Uppervols has rung out its last notes, the feeling
of epicness is felt throughout and you when you start to piece
together what you have just heard, you will want to experience the
epic journey again right from the start.
Words
by Gavin Brown
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