Heavy Southern-Sludge-Rock’n’Roll-Riffs are the words to
give many of us metaphorical boners out there across Heavy Planet, and with the
songs brutally deployed by Indianapolis’ Void King on their debut EP Zep Tepi,
the headbangs and fist pumps are an equally joyous natural reaction to some
killer doomy riffs.
Often displaying elements of slow drudging metal mixed
around country-tinged southern rock, the hairy s.o.bs pull you slowly in with
Jason Kindred’s whiskey soaked vocals before the heavy riffs lay their siege to
the side of your skull in opening track ‘Release The Hawks’ as the song
fritters between standard driving Rock’n’Roll jumps, to metal-like riffs, to
downcast sludging, all the while shadowed by bluesy vocals inviting you
in. The chugging percussion on ‘Raise The Flags On Fire’ carry the song on a
juggernaut of suffocating riffs before the standout ‘DFI (That Was Not An Owl)’
finishes the EP off in style with a gloriously doom-esqe riff building into an
onslaught of balls-to-the-wall heavy-ass Rock’n’Roll floors you with its
finishing techniques.
Zep Tepi is over far too quick, but what else can you
expect at three songs? But it has served to whet our appetites for a debut
record of what will surely be of epic proportions from these guys in the hopefully
not too distant future. Until then, overkill yourselves on these tracks of Southern
heaviness.
