Bound To A Psychotic Cycle - Tracklisting
1.Incarnation 06:02
2.Twisted Death 05:14
Review
1.Incarnation 06:02
2.Twisted Death 05:14
Review
Doom/Stoner Rockers Rifle release their latest dirty and twisted musical assault on the senses with Bound To A Psychotic Cycle which takes a more sleazed out and garage rock journey. I haven’t featured the band on the blog since their excellent 2022 debut album “Repossessed” where their album cover managed to get me a ban on Facebook for a short amount of tim. So thanks for that guys.
Ever since then, Rifle have gone on from strength-to-strength releasing a couple more of records since then including their superb 2025 album Beyond Paranoia. Their music is a little bit more out there with Rifle focusing upon seedier sounds from musical areas such as Garage Rock. Psych, Doom. Proto-Metal and Stoner Rock.
With influences ranging from MC5, Black Sabbath and Led Zepp this EP has a freakish attitude which results in some Jazz Rock passages with a wonderful Psych Rock sound. The whole mood is quite freaky and disjointed when the song has a certain Post-Punk and Post-Dance energy which you can experience within the excellent opening track of Incarnation.
Rifle are quite adept at including moments of Classic Hard Rock freakouts which results into some epic guitar solos along the way. There’s some wonderful South American charm and Blues Rock atmosphere which closes out the opening track. The vocals are quite hard to describe which range from Funk. Doom, Dance, Punk and Heavy Rock but Rifle fully sell this great style throughout.
Second track Twisted Death has echoes of Thin Lizzy shown within the vocals delivery and how the grooves are played out. Though, the energy of Blue Oyster Cult gives this track a proper Doom Rock vibe which Rifle play to their own advantage. The usual mix of Psych, Dance and Post-Punk swagger reigns supreme once more for a song that dares to be different and pulls this off with absolute charm.
Bound To A Psychotic Cycle is a crazy and warped record with Rifle firing on all cylinders by offering the listener a damn good time.
Words by Steve Howe
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