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Release Date: October 06th 2023. Record Label: Blues Funeral Recordings. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl
Songs For Satan - Tracklisting
1. Intro
2. Night Of The Witch
3. The Chosen One
4. One Billion Skulls
5. Evil Spell
7. Worms
8. Return To The Night Of The Witch
Members
Paweł Mioduchowski - Guitars and Vocals
Piotr Ochociński - Drums
Grzegorz Pawłowski - Guitars
Piotr Zin - Bass, Vocals and Mellotron
Review:
Doom/Stoner Metallers Dopelord return with their new album Songs For Satan and their first for record label Blues Funeral Recordings who are releasing the album. This is Dopelord returning to the Occult fuelled energy of their early albums such as Magick Rites and “Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult” with a more ferocious and warped FUZZ Heavy sound. The album is deliciously flamboyant and outrageous with Dopelord’s fascination with the Occult and Devilish themes of the Doom/Stoner Metal scene.
Taking cues from a retrospective Electric Wizard creative angle throughout the album with Dopelord’s legendary BONGED OUT HEAVY sound allowing the band to play catchy and aggressive freakish jams which comes superbly well within multiple parts of the album. Dopelord never cease to amaze by playing a classic sounding of 70’s Hard Rock and extended Freakout Jams on this album alone which has become a prominent part of their sound of their last couple albums.
Songs For Satan allows Dopelord to further expand their gloomy Psych Rock melodies and complex sounding grooves that’s full of reckless rebellion on tracks such as Night Of The Witch, The Chosen One and One Billion Skulls. The guitar tone is dirty, seedy and full of scuzzy drugged out heaviness where the FUZZ is quite aggressive but full of daring Progressive wonder. The AMPLIFIED REVERB tone of the album allows the music to be constantly paying homage to the legendary bands of the scene but also allowing Dopelord to play their own original style of Doom/Stoner Metal.
The songwriting is intense with each song showing a different side into Dopelord’s creative psyche with the atmosphere being all knowing and all consuming especially within the heavier sludgier bombastic moments which comes mostly through Piotr Ochociński sublime drumming.
Dopelord offers a more threatening presence on the later tracks such as Evil Spell, Worms and Return To The Night Of The Witch. As the music even remaining downright catchy places is full of spooky intense sounds and classic Occult lyrics that allows the album to become the perfect soundtrack for the upcoming Halloween and Winter Solstice season. With a neverending wicked style of downtuned grooves and extended riffs, Dopelord have released an album that matches the legendary spirit of the classic 1970’s Doom Metal scene with the progressive and FUZZED out heaviness of today’s Stoner Metal scene.
Songs For Satan is a brilliantly outlandish release that allows Dopelord further their own reputation as one of the most visionary Occult based WEEDIAN bands within the global Doom/Stoner Metal scene. This album will be talked about for years to come. That’s how great this album is.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Purple Sage PR and All Noir PR for the promo.
Songs For Satan will be available to buy on Blues Funeral website, Bandcamp and EU store from October 06th 2023.
