Life Beyond - Thousand Vision Mist - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ackles / Hovind / Wister - Confidence Game [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/09/2016

When you find yourself adrift at zero gravity with a dreamy smile on your face, you've probably booked a flight into space on Black Lung's latest inter-dimensional transport InchForever BeyondInch. The veteran trio from Baltimore, Maryland have fine-tuned the recipe of their musical rocket fuel, distilled from stoner doom, psychedelic rock, and other fiery ingredients. Black Lung's unique concoction drives every track with captivating tunes, melodic riffing, pumping rhythms, and the inimitable vocal cords of Dave Cavalier taking it home. Every single song on InchForever BeyondInch hits it's mark perfectly. Undertones of anger and defiance manifest as many of the songs are artistic reactions to the historic political upheaval in the USA, dealing lyrically with the lure of fascism, blind nationalism, and corporate oligarchy. Black Lung came into being when two founding members of Baltimore's well-established psych rock band THE FLYING EYES, guitarist and organ player Adam Bufano and drummer Elias Schutzman, teamed up with multi-instrumentalist Dave Cavalier in early 2014. The trio set themselves apart from the crowded field of psych doom and heavy blues with a sonic interchange of fuzzed-drenched guitars, deep driving drumbeats, and Cavalier's raw, blues-tinged vocals. During the pandemic years, Black Lung managed to push forward with new guitarist Dave Fullerton, which resulted in the fourth album InchDark WavesInch. On this milestone, they abandoned some pet ideas such as eschewing bass guitar live in favour of guitars through bass amps, along with the black and white aesthetics that had dominated their artwork of their first three full-lengths. With InchForever BeyondInch, Black Lung demonstrate that it is possible to rage against injustice with an utmost joyful defiance!

The 4 track EP InchThe Kindred Of The SunsetInch serves as harbinger of The Vision Bleak's forthcoming album InchThe UnknownInch, to be released on June 3rd 2016. But the diverse and high-quality EP is more than just a simple appetizer for the album. The hymn-like title track and the nightmarish InchThe Whine Of The Cemetery HoundInch, both taken from InchThe UnknownInch, are accompanied by two exclusive tracks a cover version of the Tiamat classic InchThe Sleeping BeautyInch and the atmospheric instrumental piece InchPurification AfterglowInch.