Formed in
Hong Kong in 2006 and relocated to the United States a few years later, QUEEN
ELEPHANTINE has produced some of the finest doom albums and splits (with Sons
of Otis, Elder, and Alunah) in recent years, driven by sheer originality and
mystical force embodied in resplendent shrines of sound.
Mastered by
the omnipotent Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis, Sleep and so many more),
“Scarab” is QUEEN ELEPHANTINE's 4th album: A work of grandeur which finds the
band digging even deeper into delirious and psychedelic threnodies, abysmal
doom observances and mild invocations, offering deep, heavy sounds straight
from the soul-realm woven through the geometries of the cosmos. A funerary
procession danced by a mighty double-trio of two axes, two drumsets, and two
insectoid drones.
Unlike the
majority of doom metal music released nowadays, this is not pure Black Sabbath
worship but a mournful ride through a room full of mirrors reflecting '60s
acid psychedelic rock, shamanic cosmic trance, and creepy, slow doom.
Everything here is totally steeped in a damp, pagan / mystical basement
atmosphere full of intensely hypnagogic meditation visualizations. “Scarab” is
the type of album that takes the listener on an esoteric journey of
self-discovery.
Sample here.
LTD EDT
(only 320 copies in gatefold cover)
140
coloured vinyl € 24.00
