Release Date: December 01st 2025. Record Label: Inverted Grim Mill Recordings. Formats: CD/DD
ATAVISM - Tracklisting
1.Volcano 12:20
2.Bari 09:59
3.Life 08:21
4.Djinn 08:14
5.Canyon 11:48
Lineup
Leo Hancill - Baritone, Vocals, Guitars
Cat Redfern - Drums
Review
Doom/Stoner Metal Duo Teleost debut album ATAVISM is a heavy destructive style of music with the band forging a slightly industrial based sound set against a sludgy and droned out effect. The album has a distinctive NOISE ROCK aesthetic especially within the production techniques used to capture Teleost's intense musical delivery. The band are quite fond of creating AMPLIFIER FEEDBACK and heavy reverb which is used throughout the album.
Teleost take influences from the likes of CONAN, THE MELVINS and BORIS but they also show their tender side which moves slightly into Post-Rock or Shoegaze territory which appears within the final stages of the brilliantly chaotic opening track of Volcano.Before that, Volcano allows Teleost to sharpen their Drone/Doom Metal landscapes with some great vocals from Leo Hancill appearing here and there. The song is quite slow at the best of times but Teleost do play a faster style of music for the majority of the track.
There’s some SONIC experimentation being added that allows the album to have a monolithic quality within the heaviest and harshest environments that Teleost deliver with on the other tracks such as Bari, Life and Djinn that all explores the more seedier and distorted levels of Doom/Stoner Metal. There’s an ice cold efficiency to how Teleost deliver their music which channels a classic style of Doom Metal with that epic INDUSTRIAL sound coming mostly from Cat Redfern’s excellent drumming. Though Leo provides some haunting and downright scary melodies on guitars with his vocals once again impressing me even further on the later stages of the album.
If you’re a dedicated follower of the LOW & SLOW style of music with an air of distorted progression then Teleost have delivered a record that will impress you from the very start. The sound and overall delivery of ATAISM can be quite fractured and violent in places but it’s the musical journey that Teleost takes you upon that make this such a standout album. The album can be beautifully melodic with long drawn out Psychedelic passages with hints of Space Rock making everything quite surreal but quite hopeful as well.
ATAVISM is a highly original album with Teleost developing their own great style of music that deserves to be heard by the widest audience possible within the Doom/Stoner Metal scene.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
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