Having released their debut EP way back at the beginning
of 2012, it has been a long wait for Brazilians Son Of A Witch to release their
debut record, but my word has Thrones In The Sky been worth the wait! Mixing
elements of stoner, doom, fuzz, psychedelia, groove – basically everything we
love here at Heavy Planet, and because you’re reading this, we’re pretty sure
you’re going to love this too.
The record starts off with ‘Thrones in The Sky’, opening
with some heavy Black Sabbath
style doom worshipping, so you’d be forgiven to
thinking that the album will be going along the same route as a thousand other
bands, but then Son Of A Witch suddenly flick the ‘FUCK YEAH’ switch, and
things get tasty. The plodding doom turns into heavy, dark stoner rock with a
pulsating beat, before the rasping vocals of King Lizzard come into play like a
razor blade to the throat. The speed changes sporadically, with key changes
aplenty, and riffs to rip you a new one, but they all intertwine and fit
perfectly to create the whole song, the cliché of the journey that it takes you
on; it leaves you sweaty, neck sore, hoarse, and bursting for more – and this
is all in the first song!
style doom worshipping, so you’d be forgiven to
thinking that the album will be going along the same route as a thousand other
bands, but then Son Of A Witch suddenly flick the ‘FUCK YEAH’ switch, and
things get tasty. The plodding doom turns into heavy, dark stoner rock with a
pulsating beat, before the rasping vocals of King Lizzard come into play like a
razor blade to the throat. The speed changes sporadically, with key changes
aplenty, and riffs to rip you a new one, but they all intertwine and fit
perfectly to create the whole song, the cliché of the journey that it takes you
on; it leaves you sweaty, neck sore, hoarse, and bursting for more – and this
is all in the first song!
Each of the five tracks on the record here average about
11 minutes in length, and it can be found at times when bands try this that you
can find yourself a little bored or lost in between and wander off to thoughts
of something else, but Son Of A Witch have enough tricks up their sleeves to
make things really interesting. ‘Alpha Omega Astra’ begins again down a heavy
doomesque path for two minutes, before gigantic riffs halt proceedings and the
track changes into a juggernaut stoner rock song, around 4 and a half minutes
in it strays into metal territory without quite going full blown face
shredding, about 6 and a half minutes in they go ape shit a let lose all of
their riffing instrumental abilities in all their glory, before turning into a
psychedelic post rock vibe with spaced out vocals caressing your battered soul,
ending the song in cosmic distortion before the riffs kick in once again to devastating
effect in closing. Phew, what a ride!
The vocals, instrument styles, time changes, length of
songs, everything, compliments each other on this record. Everything can be
pretty much reflected in the artwork as, just like the music, there’s a shit
load going on, you want to take everything in all at once, it’s tripping balls,
heavy, gnarly, and just fucking awesome. Get this record!
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