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Satellite Re-affirmation ep
LYING SEASONS |
 “You will end up with your ears ringing in the morning or a wet bed.” So say Worthing four-piece Lying Seasons of their metal nightmares. It’s quite a claim, but there’s plenty on ‘Satellite Re-affirmation’s’ three tunes that could easily see you having to wash your sheets without your mum finding out. The band have no trouble whatsoever matching the heviosity of Queens of the Stone Age or Kyuss. But their music is also shot through with the theatricality and downright oddness of the likes of Muse or Mars Volta.
“Cycleshack” sets a refreshing lo-fi scene with a scuzzy bass, a fat riff and plenty of gloomy menace. A disjointed mechanised riff, plus hoary staccato vocals from frontman James Gardner see to it that the track goes from mildly unsettling to outright psychotic in the space of a few bars.
A raw, thundering, visceral sound, “Cycleshack has instant appeal; but it’s a big contrast to the joyously disorientating racket of “Purple Pill.” Here, slithering guitars and chiming arpeggios intertwine with heady effect before launching into an animated chorus that pulses with sweet venom. The solo flits around the speakers like a hyperactive wasp before everything grinds to a shuddering halt. Pass the sickbag, it’s been a bumpy ride.
For a real Dante’s Inferno-style slide through the seven circles of Hell, though, you have to get your ears around “Buddha Rope”. Charging up with painful prods of feedback, the machine lurches into life with a shattering to-and-fro rhythm that builds with palpitating speed as frontman James Gardner intones “Death by your own hand” over and over again. Like the Prodigy gone thrash, this is soul searing metal rave music. Suddenly, a humming bass introduced a minute or so of full-pelt wig-out before we settle into to the rough-hewn bounce of a goth-country section. Then we twist back into more of the bludgeoning chaos from earlier in the track. Only much, much harder. “Buddha Rope” is awesome – “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Slayer fans. What’s more, according to the sleevenotes, bassist Nick Werner also plays something called a Big Muff. How great is that?
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