Summoning Saturn Voids - Summoning Saturn Voids (Album Review)

Release Date: December 06th 2024. Record Label: Argonauta Records. Formats: CD/DD

Summoning Saturn Voids - Track Listing:

1. Cosmic Sabbath (4:53)

2. Nihil Re-Genesis (5:17)

3. Blackshift Alien God (5:57)

4. Technical Heresy(6:32)

5. Mare Tranquillitatis (2:28)

6. Star Wreck (4:19)

7. Funerastrology (6:30)

8. Siggy Starsmoke And The Bongsters From Mars (5:36)

Members

Æ – Vocals

AL(B)3 – Bass

RHA –Guitars

H7-25 – Drums

Fabban – Synth

Review

Summoning Saturn Voids self-titled debut album is one that forges the heavy Psychedelic powers of bands such as Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd whilst traversing the Cosmic World of Spaced Out Doom Metal. What makes this album standout is the band’s brilliantly strategic use of Black Metal that is perhaps the dominant musical theme despite the heavy overlays of Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal passages appearing.

The Black Metal aspect keeps everything in check and could be considered the referee of Summoning Saturn Voids blistering style of music. There’s a sinister and vintage level of Fuzz, Prog Rock and Ambient Themes that have an eerie Seventies Proto-Metal attitude with the more monolithic modern day Black & Roll approach which is still ultimately riff-centric throughout.

The opening batch of tracks of Cosmic Sabbath, Nihil Re-Genesis and Blackshift Alien God can easily draw comparisons to acts such as BONGZILLA and DOPETHRONE with the sublime vocals and down-tuned melodies that scream WEEDIAN excess even if they have a more nightmarish appeal to them.

The sudden emergence of the lush sounding Tangerine Dream inspired Psychedelic movements is quite beautiful here and the gloomy synths add a level of COSMIC class that allows Summoning Saturn Voids to be in a league of their own making. The record is quite deceptive with its pitch black aesthetics but it’s the intense storytelling that allows the band to push the boundaries of the Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal scene to an extreme level whilst being quite bleakfully hopeful at times.

The band are not afraid in laying down Classic Hard Rock riffs that should really feel out of place on an album such as this but here we are with Summoning Saturn Voids living upto their Electric Wizard and Pink Floyd influences.

The sonic and cosmic landscapes become more apparent on tracks such as Blackshift Alien God and Technical Alien Heresy, Star Wreck and Siggy Stardust And The Bongsters From Space. These tracks alone allow Summoning Sonic Voids to fuse moments of poetic brutality with an apocalyptic and devastating style of underground WEEDIAN metal. 

Nothing is what it seems with this record especially when the band employ a blackly comedic sense of humour into the mix within the lyrics and album titles. This record surprised me in a huge way as I was expecting a straightforward Blackened Doom Metal album but it’s everything that and more. This is a widely inventive album that will appeal to both fans of the Extreme Metal Scene and the more straightforward underground scene. 

Summoning Saturn Voids debut album is purely demented genius with an array of outstanding tracks that leave you wanting to hear more. If you’re in the mood for a twisted and psychedelic journey of COSMIC proportions then this is the album for you. 

Outstanding. End Of.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Grand Sounds Promotion for the promo.

Summoning Saturn Voids is available to buy now on CD/DD via Argonauta Records.

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Intergalactic Covenant SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS Unveils Debut Album Details; New Lyric Video Out Now

SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS - an intergalactic covenant born from a desire to create a musical time machine - unveils full details of their self-titled debut album, set for release via Argonauta Records on December 6, 2024.

The album's tracklisting and cover art are as follows:

1 - Cosmic Sabbath
2 - Nihil Re-Genesis
3 - Blackshift Alien God
4 - Technical Heresy
5 - Mare Tranquillitatis
6 - Star Wreck
7 - Funerastrology
8 - Siggy Starsmoke And The Bongsters From Mars

The new single and lyric video for 'Nihil Re-Genesis' are now available on YouTube: 

"The Summoning Saturn Voids spaceship continues its journey into the cosmos, among planets and ancient stellar deities. The band's Saturnian sound is much more expanded and rarefied in this song. A song to listen to in a meadow looking at the firmament." - says the band

Bringing a Black Metal singer into the future, immersed in sidereal and cosmic sounds and then catapulting him into the 70’s, jamming with Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler. Different emotions and influences contributed to the birth of his album: isolation, frustration, desire for redemption.

SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS fire up the laser blades and throw in their magical cauldron-crater a mixture of sounds inherited from Planet Earth (lysergic doom, death/black metal chants, psychedelia, stoner rock) as well from the deepest regions of the (un)known Galaxy (music of the spheres, vibrational stars-resonance frequencies). The potion thus evoked is at the same time spirited and punishing, grim and melancholic, reeking of 70’s era Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and... well, you will surely find out.

Featuring clones and doppelgangers stolen from earthly bands like Aborym, Darkend, Drakkar, The Headless Ghost and Daemoniac (plus a quite well renowned gentleman from Norway), the SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS spaceship travels through time back and forth, offering an adventurous sonic experience that will for sure appeal to a quite wide and diverse range of listeners.

LINE UP:

Æ – Vocals
AL(B)3 – Bass
RHA –Guitars
H7-25 – Drums
Fabban - Synth

For more info:

https://www.facebook.com/summoningsaturnvoids
https://www.facebook.com/ArgonautaRecords

Thanks to Grand Sounds Promotion for the details.

Intergalactic Covenant SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS signs to ARGONAUTA Records; First Single Out Now

The intergalactic covenant hidden under the banner of SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS was born from a desire to create a musical time machine.

Bringing a Black Metal singer into the future, immersed in sidereal and cosmic sounds and then catapulting him into the 70’s, jamming with Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler. Different emotions and influences contributed to the birth of his album: isolation, frustration, desire for redemption.

As a celebration of their fresh deal with Italian label ARGONAUTA Records, SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS release their first single and lyric video today, listen to "BlackShift Alien God" here: 

SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS fire up the laser blades and throw in their magical cauldron-crater a mixture of sounds inherited from Planet Earth (lysergic doom, death/black metal chants, psychedelia, stoner rock) as well from the deepest regions of the (un)known Galaxy (music of the spheres, vibrational stars-resonance frequencies). The potion thus evoked is at the same time spirited and punishing, grim and melancholic, reeking of 70’s era Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and... well, you will surely find out.

Featuring clones and doppelgangers stolen from earthly bands like Aborym, Darkend, Drakkar, The Headless Ghost and Daemoniac (plus a quite well renowned gentleman from Norway), the SUMMONING SATURN VOIDS spaceship travels through time back and forth, offering an adventurous sonic experience that will for sure appeal to a quite wide and diverse range of listeners.

LINE UP:

Æ – Vocals
AL(B)3 – Bass
RHA –Guitars
H7-25 – Drums
Fabban - Synth

More details on their new album, produced by Fabban of the historic and legendary Aborym (here also as keyboardist and noisemaker), will be revealed soon.

INFO:

https://www.facebook.com/summoningsaturnvoids
https://www.facebook.com/ArgonautaRecords

Thanks to Grand Sounds Promotion for the details.