Release
date: May 22nd 2020. Label: Heavy Psych Sounds. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Cosmic
Ritual Supertrip
– Tracklisting
1.At
Midnight You Cry 02:57
2.Universal
Phase 03:47
3.Radio
666 04:32
4.Isolation
03:38
5.Hypnotized
By The Solenoid 05:36
6.The
Great Design 02:00
7.Master
Rocket Power Blast 03:21
8.Snowball
04:17
9.Glittereyzed
04:30
10.Sacred
Graal 05:01
11.Searching
For Satellites Part 1 & 2 04:33
12.Fire
Breather 04:46
Members
GABRIELE
FIORI
FILIPPO
RAGAZZONI
EDOARDO
MANCINI
Review
Italian
Fuzz Rock Legends – Black Rainbows – return with their latest and
perhaps greatest album to date with the band offering a more refined
and action-packed sound that takes all the best elements of previous
albums whilst allowing Black Rainbows moving their sound forward into
the next decade and beyond. Black Rainbows continue their journey
with Heavy Psychedelic Grooves that has their trademark style of Fuzz
Rock, Psych Rock and Stoner Rock with a kick-ass 70s vintage sound.
The
album starts with the fast-paced and upbeat sounds of – At Midnight
You Cry – with the bands trademark FUZZY riffs moving along with a
nice addictive edge. Gabriele is on inspired form with his excellent
vocals that offer his usual top-notch performance with soulful
attitude and experience to match. The music has always been Black
Rainbows main strength and the band don’t disappoint with this
hard-edge rocker that runs under 3 minutes but it’s a good
indicator of how good this album really is and I appreciated the more
sleazier sounding aspects of the album but that could be my own
personal conclusion.
Second
song – Universal Phase – is classic Black Rainbows through and
through with a deeply satisfying vintage Psych/Space Rock sound with
a dirty FUZZ Rock atmosphere allowing the band to add soundbytes to
their music that brings in a 50s B Movie attitude to the mix. The
song becomes a more livelier affair when the 50s soundbytes dictate
on how the song plays out with great vocals and lyrics adding an
extra layer of Stoner Rock class to the overall feel and sound of the
album.
Third
song – Radio 666 – is easily one of the most addictive songs on
the album with superbly written lyrics that are quite easy to
remember which allows the listener to become part of the action. The
music does take time to fully get going but Black Rainbows have more
time to play with this song and they play a more well rounded style
of music on this song which is one of my favourite songs on the
album.
The
band continue their epic journey of focusing upon the best years of
70s Hard Rock and combining the Psychedelic Aggression of 90s Stoner
Rock/Metal that will leave you with an almighty warm glow despite the
current dark times that the whole world is going through.
Other
standout songs on the album include, Isolation, Hypnotized By The
Solenoid, Master Rocket Power Blast and Sacred Graal. Though the real
highlight is perhaps the final two songs (Searching For Satellites
Parts 1 & 2 and Fire Breather) which sees Black Rainbows offer an
Acoustic Style of music we rarely hear from the band but this is a
superbly written collection of two songs that we would perhaps expect
from Gabriele other musical project – The Pilgrim.
Cosmic
Ritual Supertrip features fantastic production which is always a
given with Black Rainbows and albums released by Heavy Psych Sounds.
So expect a vibrant and quite loud album especially when the DOOMIER
aspects of the record appear throughout the album.
Overall,
Cosmic Ritual Supertrip only enhances Black Rainbows reputation as
one of today’s best bands within the Stoner Rock/Metal scene. This
is a Top 10 album of the year contender for myself and I believe you
will see this album in similar positions on other lists when the year
is out.
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks to Purple Sage
PR for the promo. Cosmic Ritual Supertrip is available to buy now on
CD/DD/Vinyl from Heavy Psych Sounds.
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