Release Date: 01st March 2024. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD
79 A.E. - Tracklisting
1.Collision
2.Reclamation
Review
Instrumental Doom Metallers Clouds Taste Satanic return with their eighth album 79 A.E. which acts as a soundtrack to an unmade Apocalyptic Film. Consisting of two tracks both running for around twenty two minutes in length, the record is quite different to their acclaimed 2023 effort Tales Of Demonic Possession. As the band play a more streamlined version of Doom/Stoner Metal with flashes of Post-Rock and Ambient based energy.
This record has a more dominant Psychedelic and Cosmic sound with the band even adding a wicked style of classic Stoner grooves within the epic opening track Collision. Sludgy guitars abound within the first half of the song with a vibrant stop/start approach with the gloomy moments of the song. There is a subtle Blues Rock energy which the band splices with Space Rock attitude.
Even with no vocals or soundbytes, Clouds Taste Satanic provides a thrilling storytelling narrative which becomes ever more real when the heavier instrumental jams appear with the drumming being a real highlight.
Second track Reclamation sees Clouds Taste Satanic operate with a more Progressive vision which ultimately builds upto multiple different styles of Cosmic Doom and Psychedelic Stoner themes which takes the listener ever so closer to the impending arrival of ARMAGEDDON that 79 A.E. has been built for. The music is ever so real with a street level attitude despite the OUT OF THIS WORLD and science fiction creativity that the band have used for the record. The sound can be quite down-tuned in places with moments of bleak cinematic grooves before changing into small moments of uplifting blissful energy.
79 A.E. is a first rate exercise in SONIC DELIVERY where the music feels almost too real at times and even hearing Clouds Taste Satanic having a more free-flowing attitude especially on the later stages of the album. Intricate noises and Ambient rhythms are used throughout the album which only adds to the overall excitement of the whole record. It’s great to see Clouds Taste Satanic explore new areas of music with that lush Post-Rock attitude being used to wonderful effect on Reclamation.
This is an album with genuine HEART and SOUL with a powerful DESTRUCTIVE quality which gives it a more emotional feel that you don’t initially expect. 79 A.E. proves once again why Clouds Taste Satanic are without doubt one of the finest Instrumental bands from the Doom/Stoner Metal scene around today. This is another unmissable record from the band.
Explore Your Own Cosmic Destruction at your own leisure. Simply unmissable.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Sheltered Life and Majestic Mountain Records for the promo.
79 A.E. will be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Majestic Mountain Records from March 1st 2024.
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