Release Date: October 12th 2023. Record Label: Pink Tank Records. Formats: DD/Vinyl
ZEITMACHINE PEOPLE - Tracklisting
1.ZEITMACHINE PEOPLE 03:47
2.STONED AMBROSIAN 04:49
3.SVEMIR MAGARAC 05:27
4.PLASMA WORSHIP 05:39
5.HAIL & SALVATION 04:18
6.COSMIC HORIZON 04:31
7.UFOrb 04:13
8.SPACE GOLEM 04:06
9.BACK TO THE RACOON 05:20
Members
Don Alfredo - Warp Guitar & Vox
Don Francesco - Interstellar Bass & Vox
Don Fernando - Space Drums & Vox
Review
ZEITMACHINE PEOPLE is the new album from Krautrock/Doom/Stoner/Psych Rock specialists ZQKMGDZ - 10.000 km² gegen die Zeit (aka ZQKMGDZ) and it sees the band keep up their highly experimental sound captured on their earlier album releases. The album has a manic Space Rock approach and is perhaps what HAWKWIND would have sounded if LEMMY lasted the course with the band.
As this record has a manic trippy Space Rock creative theme with outbursts of primal Speed Rock which overflows into Black Sabbath heavy amplifier sounds and rebellious PUNK ROCK attitude which you can hear on the outlandish opening track ZEITMACHINE PEOPLE.
ZEITMACHINE PEOPLE has frenzied Psychedelic guitars, overlapping 70’s trippy vocals and glaring Doomed Out sounds which lays down the groundwork that ZQKMGDZ mostly follows for this album but showing a surreal KrautRock vision for the heavier parts of the album. The record is built upon out-of-this-world Psychedelic/Space Rock jams which the band inject with a fun rebellious Punk Rock attitude which still allows ZQKMDGZ to play certain WEEDIAN themes. The instrumental sound varies from different levels of heaviness which may surprise you along the way.
There’s a sense of 1970’s Space Rock and 1990’s classic Stoner Rock appearing on tracks such as STONED AMBROSIAN and SVEMIR MAGARAC which has sounds compared to bands such as QOTSA, FU MANCHU and Monster Magnet with the record turning into darker gloomier areas on mostly SVEMIR MAGARAC when compared to the almost upbeat sounding STONED AMBROSIAN.
Screeching guitars appear within the most unexpected places on this album with a sludgy Krautrock driven sound being quite vicious whilst maintaining ZQKMDGZ’s highly likeable attitude and nature. Though, the band are not afraid to play a more seedier style of Doom/Stoner Rock on the later stages of the album.
ZQKMDGZ perhaps at their creative best when exploring the Instrumental Post-Rock or Post-Doom side of their music which brings a sense of world-building Progressive grooves.
Another unexpected delight was the band’s wicked cover of the classic LOW ORBIT track UFOrb which sticks closely to the original but ZQKMDGZ add their own cosmic sludgy flavour to the track. However, ZQKMDGZ offer some heavy demonic tracks before you experience that track with songs such as PLASMA WORSHIP and COSMIC HORIZON.
ZEITMACHINE PEOPLE is a gloriously hip, quirky and surreal psychedelic journey into the Spaced Out Doom Metal vortex with flashes of intense Stoner Metal grooves that leaves you wanting to hear more from this highly talented unit. ZQKMDGZ prove once again they’re one of the most insane and inventive Space Rock/Doom/Stoner Rock bands currently out there.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
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