Release Date: February 21st 2025. Record Label: Black Throne Productions. Formats: DD/Vinyl
CONJURING - SIDE A: TEMPLE OF THE FUZZ WITCH
1- EFFIGY
2- ETERNAL LAMENTATION -
3- FOUL OF SHADES
CONJURING - SIDE B: SEUM
4 - DEAD EAR
5 - PROBLEMS
6 - EFRIT
Temple Of The Fuzz Witch Members
Noah Bruner - Vocals/Guitar
Joe Peet - Bass
Taylor Christian - Drums
SEUM Members
Fred - Drums
Gaspard - Vocals
Piotr - Bass
Review
US Blackened Doom Metallers Temple Of The Fuzz Witch team up with Canadian Sludge/Stoner Metallers SEUM for this bleak addictive split album release CONJURING which allows both bands to stamp their own musical authority. The record is powerfully addictive with Temple Of The Fuzz Witch appearing first offering three tracks that expands their Blackened Doom/Sludge Mentality into a heavy area of depressing FUZZ and all of the debauchery that goes with playing that epic style of music.
Temple Of The Fuzz Witch are more riff-orientated on this split record with an ELECTRIC WIZARD and EYEHATEGOD appetite appearing within the vocals and lyrics on each of the individual tracks with some surprising melodic Blackened Sludge Metal movement appearing on EFFIGY and FOUL OF SHADES. The final track of FOUL OF SHADES is where the magic happens creatively speaking for Temple Of The Witch being some of the best material they’ve written to date.
SUEM offer their usual blend of Sludge/Stoner Metal with small amounts of gloomy effects appearing which allows their “BASS” only sound decimate the FUCKING landscape with low and slow pounding grooves before a layer of distorted sounds destroys your hearing throughout. The opening track DEAD EAR by Seum is quite chaotic and has an hallucinogenic quality with despairing HARSH vocals creating a desolate landscape of punishing and experimental sounds that fits superbly well into the heavier sounds that Temple Of The Fuzz Witch are known for.
The other two tracks of PROBLEMS and EFRIT continues the DESTRUCTIVE and SONIC bombardment of downtuned filthy grooves with Piotr’s epic bass guitar punching holes into the musical atmosphere that could rival DOPETHRONE at times. The sound is completely dense and unforgiving with Fred’s drums and Gaspard’s vocals keeping the mood downright mean and nasty.
Conjuring is a damn fine split from TEMPLE OF THE WITCH and SEUM that should endear them to the wider hordes and legions of underground Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metal fans.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
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