It’s not quite my favorite genre, but “Dark As Light” still stir up the interest, it’s a gloomy and dynamic travel into the psychedelic soaked heavy side of instrumental doom. It’s quite funny, a warm, glowing orange cover for this kind of pretty dark and – no better match right now in my mind – oppressive music.
The band was formed in Athens, Greece, in Autumn of 2006 by George G. – guitar (ex-Choir Macabre) and John K. – guitar (Afformance). Later they were joined by drummer Serafim G. (also of Uranium Cardinals) and without pre-set ideas on how or what to play they’ve started rehearsing giving birth to the first main riffs that would later on constitute the nucleus of what was next to come. They released their self-titled debut album in 2009 and “Dark As Light” is their second full-length album consist in four elaborated and extensive tracks – the shortest one have 11.32 minutes.
It’s a gloomy, slow grinding blend of psychedelic, space and progressive and stoner rock with doom metal left-overs, sounds like Cathedral had a jam high on weeds with Hawkwind. It may be a little bit tiring, and perhaps some vocals would light up the atmosphere, but still, this is a dark, but interesting trip, the two guitar players brings a few nice solos and the drummer have some really interesting rhythms, breaks and rhythmic formulas.
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