Release Date: November 08th 2024. Record Label: Heavy Psych Sounds. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Forever Spoken - Track Listing:
1.Forever Spoken
2.Through Eyes Of Apathy
3.Mouth Piece Of Hate
4.Panacea
5.New Age Fallacy
6.Becoming I
7.Silver Turns To Rust
Members
Denny Stone — Vocals
Thomas White — Guitar
Jessy Cane — Bass
Jeremy Grobsmith — Drums
Review
Sludge/Stoner Metallers Witchpit return with their second full length album Forever Spoken and the band continue with their classic style of aggressive grooves from the old-school of sounds made famous by bands such as High On Fire, Black Tusk and Mastodon. This time round Witchpit really do come into their own darkened void with a thrilling Psychedelic approach which gives an extra layer of progressive heaviness to their music. With a non-stop appetite for classic THRASH METAL grooves, WItchpit employ a distinctive Post-Metallic synergy to their music that gives the album quite an apocalyptic feel.
The vocals are clean but with harsh overtones which gives Witchpit a great style of their own especially from a creative standpoint and allowing their music to become quite DOOM obsessive in places. The album is down right catchy and brilliantly fast-paced with the band excelling playing ferocious Sludge/Stoner Metal passages on tracks such as Forever Spoken, Through Eyes Of Apathy, Panacea and New Age Of Fallacy becoming my favourite tracks on the whole album.
There’s a whole lot more to Forever Spoken that meets the eye with murky landscapes and soundscapes allowing Witchpit to deliver thrilling riffs throughout the whole album. Once again matching the classic Sludge/Thrash Metal energy of High On Fire but adding their own take on things especially within the more pitch-black surroundings of the album.
The instrumental sounds are always delivered with superb technical ability with Denny Stone’s vocals bridging the gap between the classic heyday of Sludge/Stoner Metal with the technical ability that dominates the modern day scene. So you have the best of both worlds with Forever Spoken being quite unforgiving with it’s bold and dark lyrical content that’s quite a different contrast to Witchpit’s debut album.
Witchpit have placed themselves as one of the best upcoming Sludge/Stoner Metal bands within the US underground scene right now. If they keep on this creative path for future releases then Witchpit could become a major force within the underground scene and play on the biggest stages the scene has to offer.
Forever Spoken is an outstanding album that benefits from first rate production values which isn’t surprising since it’s being released by famed record label Heavy Psych Sounds. I’m hoping the album gets the recognition it truly deserves as this is a HUGE SOUNDING album with GIGANTIC RIFFS to match.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the promo.
Forever Spoken is now available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Heavy Psych Sounds.
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