YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!...oh sorry, getting a
bit carried away with ourselves there. Let’s start from the beginning; Overstaying
My Welcome is outstanding! Hold on, we’ll go a little further back than that
still...
Void Cruiser come from Helsinki, Finland, they formed in
2011, released an EP, Motherload, in 2013, and now have released their debut full
length,, Overstaying My Welcome: eight tracks of heavy riffs, fuzzy, loud walls of
guitars, stoner guttural vocals, all combined to make a glorious noise that we at Heavy Planet just purr over.
So many superlatives can be thrown at this band that it
would become a ridiculous review , not really making any sense. Take the title
track, five-and-a-half minutes of swift kicks to the face of fuzzy stoner guitar
licks, stadium igniting solos, as well as the gentlest weeping of the same six
stringer. The vocals of Santeri Salo chanting “I’m not supposed to be around”
are the perfect accompanying tone to intertwine the heavy instrumentation (Vili
Salo – guitar, backing vocals, Lassi Tähtinen – bass, backing vocals, Teemu
Rantanen – Drums) together, as the song builds and builds to its aggressive
crescendo; and so every other track pretty much follows in epic proportions.
‘Heist’ is every part heavy stoner, groovy blues,
balls-to-the-wall metal you could possibly want in a song, ‘Splinters’ is an energetic youth spirited
pure rock episode of attitude and gnarly riffs, while both ‘Borrow From
Tomorrow’ and ‘Golden Teeth Smile’ initially offer glimpses into a softer side to the
band, they just serve to lull you into a false sense of security before
continuing their plan of ripping you a new one.
Void Cruiser have similarities to Generous Maria, or at least
the band that they should have become. This band are planting the flag high for
all of Scandinavian stoner rock for all the world to take note and up their game and reach
their level. Like we said at the start, Overstaying My Welcome just makes you
yell out “YES! YES! YES!” forevermore!
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