Release
date: March 03rd 2017. Label: Battleground Records.
Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
This
Mortal Road – Tracklisting
1.This Mortal Road
2.Wind Scorpion
3.Serpent Cult
4.Swallowed And Lost
5.Inhumation
Band
Members
Matt Iacovelli - Guitar/Vocals/Piano
Jeff Landry - Drums
Review
US
Sludge/Stoner Metal riffsters - Rozamov - finally release their debut
full length album - This Mortal Road. Rozamov's music has changed
dramatically since they released their debut EP almost four years
ago. Rozamov appear as a more confident and world-weary unit with
their debut album offering bleak sludge/stoner atmospherics.
Post-Metal plays a big part with Rozamov's music though that's not to
say there a post-metal band as such. They use that genres ideas and
blend it with a more familiar sludge/stoner groove.
The
opening track - This Mortal Road - is quite an adventurous style for
Rozamov to open the song with as it's very progressive and there are
quite a few different musical elements to listen to. Psych, Sludge,
Stoner, Doom and Post-Metal with a hint of bleak Desert Rock. Vocals
appear briefly though it's the progressive riffs that drift from
Sludge, Stoner, Doom and Post-Metal that impress the most. Shades of
Pelican, Yob and ISIS The Band maybe visible to some.
Second
track - Wind Scorpion - is an even angrier and heavier track compared
to This Mortal Road. As Rozamov play a more direct style of Sludge
Rock/Metal. The vocals are superb throughout. The music is played at
a slow pace but it allows Rozamov to experiment with their sound as
they add ambient noises to the song.
Third
track - Serpent Cult - carries on the distorted and noise rock driven
sound with intense different style of vocals seeing Rozamov playing a
more doomier sound.
Fourth track - Swallowed And Lost - is the
shortest track on the album lasting under two minutes. It's a
post-rock based song with a slowly played piano set against a
distorted soundclip. It's a cool and unsettling track at times.
The
final track - Inhumation - runs past eleven minutes and offers the
clearest indication how immensely loud and powerful this album really
is. Mastodon style riffs appear but Rozamov offer a fresher
experimental sound. The sludge/stoner grooves give way a mix of
post-rock and post-metal psych riffs. The vocals once again drift in
and out from the action. Though it's the music that holds your
attention as Rozamov weave one final spell of hypnotic trance based
sounds.
This
Mortal Road is a superbly produced album and one that shows Rozamov
offer something different to their more famous and established peers.
A truly captivating and heavy as hell record.
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks to Earsplit PR
for the promo. This Mortal Road will be available to buy on
CD/DD/Vinyl via Battleground Records from March 3rd 2017.
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