Release Date: February 20th 2026. Record Label: Ripple Music. Formats: DD/Vinyl
Hymns Under A Blood Moon Sky - Tracklisting
1.Got Nothing
2.Pentacle Star
3.I See You
4.Forest of Fire
5.Blackwater Rising
6.Old Spanish Trail
7.Damn These Pills
8.Mountain
9.$6 Man
10.Heartless Bodies
11.No Apologies
12.La Ti Da
Members
Danny Nick - Bass, Vocals
Durel Yates - Guitars, Vocals
Andrew Preen - Drums, Percussion
Review
Stoner Metal heavyweights Suplecs return after a fifteen year absence with their new album Hymns Under A Blood Moon Sky and the band haven’t lost their distinctive “STREETWISE” sound. As this album sees the band blaze through a ton of epic sounding tracks that forges sounds from the Doom, Fuzz, Sludge, Stoner and Punk musical scenes. You’ll be surprised to hear Suplecs taking influence from the likes of IRON MAIDEN, BLACK SABBATH, BLACK FLAG, MOTORHEAD, FU MANCHU and other great legendary artists that allows the band to tap into a wealth of heavy rock grooves.
The lyrics are brutally intense in places with a bleak NOLA quality telling stories of life, addiction and suicide along the way. This is what I would expect to hear from an EYEHATEGOD record with Suplecs laying on the depressing slices of real life but this works to Suplecs advantage with a gloomy atmosphere that builds upto to heavy DOOMED OUT BLUES METAL throughout tracks such as Got Nothing, Pentacle Star and I See You.
The first three opening tracks allow Suplecs to inject a world weary Stoner Metal attitude into their NOLA musical upbringing. Everything is stripped back to the bare minimum with the grimy attitude of the album creating areas of filth infested Sludge/Stoner Metal with a cool sideline in Psychedelic and Fuzzed Out surroundings. That doesn’t stop Suplecs experimenting with their music by adapting a Jazz Metal approach within the excellent fourth track Forest Of Fire before exploring a violent Hardcore/Sludge/Punk based climax.
That unflinching approach from Suplecs is used brilliantly well throughout the rest of the album with other areas of crazed and dirge filled instrumental sludgy metal passages starting to dominate the whole record. The vocals from Danny Nick and Durel Yates work superbly well on the whole album with the uncompromising tone allowing Suplecs being slightly closer to the likes of KOWLOON WALLED CITY on the later stages of the record.
An even more aggressive MOTORHEAD influence rears its ugly head to put this album firmly into Sludge/Stoner Metal territory with a bevy of sublime NOLA instrumental solos on the second half of the album. Though, be prepared for Suplecs to focus solely playing the BLUES on stunning sixth track Old Blood Trail which has a cautionary and emotionally charged musical atmosphere at its main core.
Other standout tracks to freak out and lose yourself to are: Damn These Pills, Mountain, Heartless Bodies and No Apologies with Suplecs offering no apologies for the sinister and riff-fuelled musical adventure they will take the listener upon.
Hymns Under A Blood Moon Sky is perhaps the best album for Suplecs to comeback with. They could have easily gone for a more polished sound and user friendlier album but that’s not Suplecs style. They’ve stuck true to their creative beliefs and deliver one of their best albums to date. Fifteen years is a long time to wait for an album but Suplecs have released an album of real emotional depth, heart and perhaps one of the most truthful Stoner Metal albums we’ve heard in a very long time.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the promo.
Hymns Under A Blood Moon Sky is available to buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via Ripple Music.
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