Release Date: September 12th 2025. Record Label: Majestic Mountain Records. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl
Atomicult - Tracklisting
1.Obey Capricorn
2.Phantom Castle Warning
3.Auto-Skull
4.Relics
5.Night Grief
6.Physical Witching
7.Chrome Sisters
8.Biclops
9.Summer Skeletons
10.To Ultramegaphonium
Members
Marty Harvey (drums/vocals)
David Majury (guitar)
Chris Couzens (guitar)
Review
Cosmic Doom Heavyweights Slomatics return with another grand, bold and aggressive new musical adventure with the mightily named Atomicult. This is Slomatics eighth full length album for a career that’s spanned over twenty years. There’s been celebrated split releases with the likes of CONAN, Domkraft and Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard to name but a few.
The record sees Slomatics developing a more refined sound with multi-layered guitars and progressive drumming with the band sometimes playing music more closely associated with the likes of Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and Genesis which was there on their last album Strontium Fields but only in small doses. Everything is played on a grander and tighter creative scale with Marty’s vocals being more refined, restrained, calmer and quieter that has a certain Classic Rock or Commercial aspect especially within the Ambient Post-Rock movements that Atomicult contains.
The instrumental surroundings allows Slomatics to reinvent the Cosmic Doom/Stoner Metal landscape once more in their own undeniable and brilliantly original heavy image within the first few tracks of the album Obey Capricorn, Phantom Castle Warning and Auto-Skull. Intense drumming from Marty has a destructive effect which sees Chris Couzens and David Majury’s epic guitars weave different levels of distorted heaviness and the sci-fi leaning synths sees the band venture into the theatre of Post-Rock especially on the emotionally satisfying fourth track Relics. This allows Marty to demonstrate a vocal style we haven’t heard from him before which delivers with pure Soft Rock perfection.
However, with this being Slomatics, they prove why they’re one of the most original and destructive forces within the modern day Doom Metal scene with expeditions into COSMIC and PSYCHEDELIC landscapes where soulful melodies can appear out of nowhere to change the dimension of the entire record. The album does feel like a natural progression from Strontium Fields but with tighter, richer and concise production values that truly comes into great effect on later tracks of the album such as Night Grief, Physical Witching, Summer Skeletons and To Ultramegaphonium.
The lyrics written for this album are quite fantastical but one that delves into areas of Artificial Intelligence which evolves into a cautionary tale if we leave that dreaded AI upto their own devices. Long time readers of the blog may know that I absolutely LOVE and ADORE this band. Slomatics have always delivered some of the best Cosmic/Doom/Stoner Metal records of the last fifteen years and that form continues with Atomicult.
Swirling Ambient sounds, Post-Rock rhythms and gloomy synths all play a big part for Slomatics to conjure an exciting style of COSMIC DOOM that adds an eerie CINEMATIC feel to their music which still allows the band to explore new creative ground and storytelling narrative we haven't experienced from the guys. So expect to hear some vastly different music within the record that can be quite jaw-dropping in places.
Even the amazing album cover which is inspired by the King Crimson record cover from In the Court of the Crimson King shows you what to expect with a record that merges reality and fantasy into one warped PSYCHEDELIC journey of distorted paranoia.
Atomicult is my favourite album of the year. I don’t know if anything will come close to this amazing record but Slomatics have delivered a modern day classic with Atomicult and teaming up with Majestic Mountain Records for the album makes this the perfect album to own especially if you want to be taken on a thrilling and brilliantly aggressive musical spectacle with classic grooves that leave you questioning your own reality.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Viral Propaganda PR for the promo.
Atomicult is available to buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via Majestic Mountain Records from the links below:
