Demonauta - Caminando en la Luna (2012)
While we usually try to stick to
reviewing recent releases, when Demonauta sent us this album for some
attention, we were pretty quickly convinced it would be worth sharing
with our audience. For one thing, the Chilean trio cranks out just
the sort of fuzzy and dirty desert grooves that we love here at RWTD;
for another, the album just got issued on CD by Tuneless Records,
with a vinyl release from Kozmik Artifactz slated for the
near-future. While the band's DIY original release might have
slipped under your radar, it's worth pricking up your ears for these
reissues, what with their panache for heavy, bluesy rock doom.
The band works well together,
delivering the punchy drum & guitar riffs with power while the
bassist lays down a steady foundation of tasty crunch. A lot of the
usual stoner rock sound is there, with some adept effects thrown on
the bass to give it a buzz-saw edge, but the guitarist balances out
the shreddier moments (which do rock hard) by kicking back every now
and then into a more stripped-down and bluesy mode. They've got a
nice range of vocals, with smoother approaches shifted into rougher
fare, and right back out again, without any of it coming across as
forced or beyond the singers' abilities.
What the band has put together is a
very solid album of heavy rock, tightly executed but with enough wild
spirit to bring the energy out in earnest. If you've got any
fondness for heavy/stoner/desert/doom/whatever rock (that should be
most everyone reading this site), give these guys your ears.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Church
Of Misery, Powered Wig Machine, Megasus, The Heavy Co., Manthrass
~
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