Something dark, heavy, and brutal has emerged from the
depths of South America in the form of Brazil’s PEDRA PRETA, and their debut record, I, with enough venom and stoner hooks to grind you to your core.
The four-piece have melded together every form of heavy
music you love into one confined, suffocating space, where you can experience
every head banging emotion you can muster. The riffs switch between drawn out
doom and fist-pumping stoner, while the vocals have a hint of bi-polar
disorder, jumping between death-like screams to laid back psychedelia. It makes
for an edge of your seat listen.
Opening track ‘O Ritual’ starts off as a tribute to Sleep
with its repetitive killer riff leading you into a full blown stoner death
assault (or as the band call it, “funeral rock’n’roll”) as Mickael Rabello’s
vocals are screeched from the depths of hell. ‘Sgurd’ displays some excellent sludge
heaviness before ‘Evil Spell’ displays the bands cleaner cut stoner side with
softer vocals, but the riffs remain just as dominant throughout.
When closing track ‘Devils Way’ sucks you into its stoner
delicacy, you realise that the record works better with its polar opposite
vocal approaches than it would without, as it sets the band apart from the rest
of their peers, but also it makes for a much more interesting listen, as when
the riffs can’t get any heavier, you have to turn the vocals up to their raw,
punishing best, to which PEDRA PRETA do with immense satisfaction.
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