Wild Rocket - Formless Abyss (Album Review)

Release Date: March 04th 2022. Record Label: Riot Season Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl

Formless Abyss - Tracklisting

Formless Abyss

Interplanetary Vibrations

The Future Echoes

Review

Wild Rocket return with their new album Formless Abyss and it’s a highly majestic record incorporating different styles and sounds of the Post-Rock, Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, Psych Rock and Space Rock underground. The album is quite dense and heavily layered at the different Progressive themes that these genres bring. There is a fine amount of Distorted Drone elements as well which you’ll encounter right away on the stunning opening title track Formless Abyss.

The opening song reminds me of the Space Rock dynamics that Slomatics use for their style of music but Wild Rocket go all in with the levels of Distortion and Droned Out Effects. The band still shows a fine ear for detail within the riffs department. The song lasts for ten minute and Wild Rocket do go back to the original gods of Amplifier Distortion with BLACK SABBATH style levels of volume which you can feel within the guitars on this song and the rest of the album.

Second track Interplanetary Vibrations truly lives up to its name with Wild Rocket embracing their Space Rock identity even more with this song being even louder than the first. It’s quite different but shows Wild Rocket being quite content playing mellow sounds before barging right into playing some epic sludgy based spaced out grooves. The vocals are calm, measured and aggressive which only adds to the cinematic scale of the album.

The final track of the album The Future Echoes offers almost twenty minutes of the finest DIstorted Spaced Out Doom and Psych Stoner Rock that Wild Rocket have ever recorded. Daring, dark, bold and quite cinematic in scope. The heavy grooves have a SUNN 0))) and OM based perspective to them but perhaps running at a faster pace. The vocals are quite bleak and most definitely from the DOOM ROCK side of life. The Psychedelic Layers offer a more experimental style of music which still allows the band to play some mighty fine guitar solos along the way even if they're quite long drawn out and on the Drone-ish side of things. 

The album is a genuine work of art in some cases with the first rate production values allowing Wild Rocket to reach gigantic volumes of noise they haven't achieved before. 

Overall, Formless Abyss is a huge sounding album and has the potential to be in the top-tier of the best Psychedelic/Space/Stoner Rock albums of the year. Awesome stuff...

Words by Steve Howe

You can buy Formless Abyss via Riot Season Records now from BandCamp and BigCartel.

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Wild Rocket - Dissociation Mechanics (Album Review)

Release date: July 7th 2017. Label: Self Released. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl

Dissociation Mechanics - Tracklisting

1.Caught In Triangle Again 09:32

2.Infinite Reconnaissance Imager 05:31

3.Into The Black Hole 06:18

4.The Future Echoes 15:34 video

5.The Edges Of Reality 06:49

Band Members:

Bres - Rythmic Pulses

Jon K - Psychoacoustic Timbre

Moose - Sub Octaves and Communication

Niallo - Phase Changes

Review

Wild Rocket makes a welcome return with their second album - Disassociation Mechanics. An album that sees Wild Rocket create heavier and more experimental sounds than their debut album. This time Wild Rocket venture more into noisier and doomier based territory with the band keen to explore a more industrial sound.

Opening track - Caught In Triangle Again - is a mixture of psychedelic nightmarish distorted sounds and spaced out doom metal riffs. The vocals have layers of distortion behind them though you can easily understand them. The song is not your average Psychedelic Doom based song as Wild Rocket take influence from bands such as Slomatics and Genghis Tron at times. It's very spaced out and full-on electronica affair but with a highly intriguing atmospheric doom approach. The noisy glitches and sound effects never stops the flow of the fantastic instrumental work that Wild Rocket play on the album.

Second track - Infinite Reconnaissance Imager- is a more standard psychedelic noise/space rock offering with the main highlight of the song being the cool lyrics and great vocals. A more riff heavy approach make this song one of the more interesting songs on the album. It becomes heavier when the chorus kicks in and it will sure have you nodding your head in agreement.

Third track - Into The Black Hole - has quite a claustrophobic feel with the electronica sounds creating a doomier atmosphere. The vocals from Moose name later take centre stage as the rest of the band carry on playing heavy spaced out noises.

Fourth Track - The Future Echoes - is the going to be the main talking point on this album. As Wild Rocket create a heavy spaced out disjointed and disturbing rock opus. Distorted vocals fade in and out with the industrial/doom/space sounds taking a more experimental feel. The keyboards and synths give this album a more digital hardcore or even Nine Inch Nails feel. This song will leave you questioning not only your own reality but also your own sanity as well.

Fifth track - The Edges Of Reality - closes the album the way it's been played from the start with heavy monolithic noises and riffs all combining for an exciting finish. I can hear elements of Hawkwind on this song and perhaps their most famous song – Silver Machine.

Disassociation Mechanics is a very hard album to describe and perhaps even difficult to listen to at times. The fact remains that Wild Rocket have created an exciting and wholly original wild ride. The album won't be for everyone but if you want a challenging album that will not only test your patience but richly reward it as well, then you will find this very hard to beat.

Words by Steve Howe

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