Release Date: August 23rd 2024. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: CD/DD
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol1: Tracklisting
1.Beautiful
2.Startrippin
3.Mother Freedom
4.Leviathan
5.Clear Light
6.God Is Your Gun
7.Seven Suns
8.Digging A Hole
9.UVB76
Members
Nebülith: vocals, fretless piccolo bass, piccolo bass,4 string basses, drums, keys, organ, bass guitar synthesizer, vocoder, drum programming, windchime, megaphone
Pat Shaughnessy: Drums on “Beautiful” and “God Is Your Gun”
Review
Nebülith is the product of John Shaughnessy, a professional bassist, multi instrumentalist from Charlottesville, NC who fuses Grunge, Doom, Stoner, Punk, Metal and Psychedelic sounds that have an eerie experimental edge to them which come straight from the 1970’s and 1990’s era of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. The record is constantly seedy with a dynamic and boastful Stoner Metal appearance that allows Nebülith to call upon his wide range of musical influences (SLEEP, Monster Magnet, Motorhead, FU MANCHU and even Ministry) and give them a fresh transformation within his own creative image.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol1 is aptly named with Nebülith demonstrating a slight APOCALYPTIC feel with a vintage Proto-Doom sound with his fabulous seedy vocals to match. The instrumental sounds are always full of FUZZED UP aggression and down-tuned Psychedelic energy with the STONER movement changing into areas of music that come out of nowhere such as Industrial Rock/Metal. I would say the album has quite an eclectic or schizophrenic delivery but with Nebülith enjoying playing a different style of music for the majority of the tracks contained here.
Nebülith does sometimes get carried with the DYSTOPIAN message of the album but there’s a huge likeability and addictive quality within the record especially where Nebülith uses overlapping guitars, feedback loops, distorted rhythms and mind-altering sonic passages. The record works best when Nebülith goes off script and plays down-tuned guitars, trippy Psychedelic beats and straight-forward Stoner RIFFS where the album becomes quite refreshing to hear.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol1 does move over into areas of Prog Rock and Jam based sessions which makes the record even hard to define and classify as. One moment you think you have the whole album figured out and Nebülith just says FUCK IT, here’s a multi-layered fuzzy sound that transcends into warped Psychedelic hysteria. And I loved every twisted aspect of the whole journey.
The standout tracks on the album include: Beautiful, Startrippin, Leviathan, Clear Light, God Is Your Gun, Digging A Hole and UVB76. As these tracks allow John to develop and deliver the heaviest and most inventive parts of the album. The amount of freaky Psychedelic and catchy aggressive sludgy guitars allowed me to lose myself within the whole DOOMED OUT journey of the whole album.
The End Of The World or the impending doom of ARMAGEDDON has never sounded so good especially within the Stoner Metal arena. I hope Nebülith has plans for Part 2 as I’m more than happy to be resurrected to go through the whole thrilling journey yet again.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol1 is a quality sounding record which offers quite a dangerous style of Doom/Stoner Metal from the underground scene.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Clawhammer PR for the promo.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol1 will be available to buy on CD/DD on Friday August 23rd 2024.
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