[psychedelic rock] (2018) Pharaoh Overlord - Zero [FLAC,Tracks]

(2018) Pharaoh Overlord - Zero

Review:
Every track on Zero lays the groundwork for what could be a nice meander through the forms and formulae of spaciness, but this is so nothing stays straightforward for long. The opener is a bold move: a cover of ‘Revolution’, the Spacemen 3 anthem for cannabis legalisation and all-round mumbling directive to dissent, with a full-throated singing style that sounds like Antti Boman has toked more than a few doorjammers. But, wild and woolly as this first track is, the rest of the album gets far stranger. Boman’s vocals have been transplanted from their more familiar home among the death metal grind of his band Demilich, while HJ Irmler from Faust lends swirling, reverberant keyboards to the mix with a deftness of touch that might surprise those expecting the angrier fuzz tones that graced his previous collaboration with Pharaoh Overlord, Live in Suomi Finland. It’s Boman’s guttural vocalisations that are the most obviously bizarre feature of both ‘Revolution’ and Zero in general. Taken out of their aggressive context and juxtaposed with the freeform cosmic freakout and harmonic twists of Pharaoh Overlord’s music, they can seem out of place at first. When sounds like these well up from the glottal nether regions, the music that goes along with them is traditionally hard-riffing, with amps roaring and drumkits battered into double-kick submission for the delight of moshpits and stagedivers. But Zero cuts and cavorts more than it blisters and burns.
Tracklist:
01 - Revolution
02 - Maailmanlopun ateriana
03 - Meanwhile
04 - Lalibela Cannot Spell Zero
05 - Satavuotiaiden salaisuus
06 - I Drove All Night by My Solar Stomp

Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: psychedelic rock