Elusive
German doom quartet OBELYSKKH have completed their second
full-length, White Lightnin’, confirmed for release via the
avant-garde-minded riffmongers at Exile On Mainstream Records in North America
on October 16th.
Today the
aficionados of thunderous riffage at The Obelisk have gladly premiered a brand
new track from OBELYSKKH, and not simply because
of the obvious name kinship... but because they were the right doomsters for
the job. Deafen all in earshot with the fourth track from White
Lightnin’, the six-and-a-half minute homage to their previous album, via
“Mount Nysa” RIGHT HERE.
Amidst
tours and live performances throughout Germany and abroad since their 2008
inception, White Lightnin’ follows-up OBELYSKKH’s
long-time-comin’ debutMount
Nysa, which was released
in 2011 via now defunct German label Droehnhaus, nearly four years after the
band’s formation. Following the immediately incredible response from the
doom/sludge scene it received, the band decided against a massive gap until the next
album, and over the turn of the year into 2011 set up camp with Billy Anderson
(Sleep, Neurosis, Mr. Bungle,
Eyehategod, High On Fire, Melvins, etc.) to capture, mix and master their new
work.
The more than
hour-long White
Lightnin’ is a
roaring tour de force of catchy, flowing sludge/doom with just the right amount
of atmospheric properties to counter its skull-shattering low-end assault,
drawing from pure filth
through psychedelic soundscapes into postrock and back. The output of OBELYSKKH is crushing but it also breathes some kind
of repetitive mantra-like ambition, which clears the air here and there and
thus declines total negativity. Diehards of Sleep, Ufomammut, Electric Wizard and labelmates Black Shape
of Nexus will unquestionably embrace this outfit’s offerings into their record
collections.
White
Lightnin’ and
coverage of the OBELYSKKH collective can be obtained for your
media pages and portals at this time...
White
Lightnin’ Track Listing:
1. The
Enochian Keys
2. Elegy
3. The White
Lightning
4. Mount
Nysa
5.
Amphetamine Animal
6. Abysmal
Desert Cavern
7.
Invocation To The Old Ones
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