Release Date: 01st May 2026. Record Label: Kozmik Artifactz & Black Throne Productions. Formats: DD/Vinyl
Onto The Afterlife - Tracklisting
1.Soldier of Love 06:40
2.Onto the Afterlife 06:11
3.Cerebral Annihilation 08:57
4.I am the Night 11:13
5.Long Goodbye 08:19
Members
Matt Allen - Bass,Vocals & Synth
Raff Iacurto - Guitar, Vocals & Synth
Tim Pritchard - Drums & Synth
Review
Psych/Doom/Stoner Rockers Robot God return with their latest sonic conquest Onto The Afterlife after the two critically acclaimed albums (Portal WIthin and Subconscious Awakening) in 2024. This album continues the Psychedelic and Space Rock trajectory of those albums but with a more confident Grunge, Blues and Sludge Rock attitude. The band are also releasing another album called Curse Of The Driven to be released later this year and this is perhaps the first part of a much more expanded story.
Creative cues from the likes of Black Sabbath, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, MONOLORD and KYUSS are just some of the bands you can hear throughout this album. However, Robot God are wise enough to formulate their own plans of Sonic Distortion which comes into life on the excellent opening track Soldier Of Love which pairs up the legendary SABBATHIAN heavy DOOMED OUT sound with the murky grunge attitude of Soundgarden. The level of overlapping psychedelic melodies and grounded vocals opens Robot God to new areas of seedy heaviness with a great level of mass distortion emitting from all corners.
There’s a slight dependency on Prog Metal and Proto-Metal which gives a surreal creative attitude which could even allow Robot God to move over to the Post-Stoner Metal brotherhood where the likes of ELDER and KING BUFFALO reign supreme. The influx of Ambient sounds and Post-Rock passages comes across superbly well on tracks Onto The Afterlife and Cerebral Annihilation with that gloomy “APOCALYPTIC” approach holding everything together.
The dual vocals from Matt Allen and Raff Iacurto work superbly well together and even against each other when they’re both trying to battle for vocal supremacy within the band. Robot God adds some thrilling use of intricate Psychedelic sound effects and Space Rock loops that allows the album to drift into heavier pastures.
Onto The Afterlife becomes vastly more creative within the second half as Robot God experiments even further with distorted fragments and down-tuned grooves on tracks such as Cerebral Annihilation, I Am The Night and Long Goodbye. Despite the fantastical element of the music, the album can be quite real with Robot God writing some killer socially aware lyrics that puts the record on a more subversive level with real intelligence appearing from start to finish.
Robot God have once again delivered the goods with Onto The Afterlife which perhaps leaves a few questions unanswered which maybe fully answered when their next album Curse Of The Driven is released in the second half of the year.
Words by Steve Howe