Acid Mammoth's Colossal Doom Metal Incites a "Supersonic Megafauna Collision" (Early Album Stream)
Consistency is not the same thing as stagnancy, and Acid Mammoth is the proof. There are three things one should expect from an Acid Mammoth album: one, the album art is going to have something mammoth-y on it, two, there's going to be riffs, and three--well, there's going to be a lot of riffs. Each album they've released has fit this criteria and been its own, monstrous entity without any hints of trite repetition. The Grecian doom titans have staved off the extinct fate of their namesake by giving the people what they want with a distinct lack of filler or unwanted gimmicks, and their legacy continues on Supersonic Megafauna Collision. We're streaming the new album early before it releases this Friday--listen below and check out some glacial, explosive doom metal. In classic doom metal fashion, the last track on the album is the longest and the weirdest, so make sure you stick around for the whole thing.
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Billed by the band as "666% fuzz" -- mathematically improbable, but from these dudes I believe it -- Supersonic Megafauna Collision combines tasty, rather fuzzy riffs with intriguing lead playing that never outstays its welcome. It's titanic doom metal, but laced with no small amount of hallucinogens -- the layers to the album are liable to entrap and enspell listeners. For one thing, there's enough reverb on vocalist/guitarist Chris Babalis Jr 's far-flung delivery to sink into, forever. Beyond that, the underlying riffs rumble through the low-end without burying any details or getting too complex, but they're still catchy and able to be amplified into something absolutely monolithic when combined with everything else going on. It's not that other bands don't do that, but Acid Mammoth is particularly skilled at using a limited toolset to freshen up even the most knuckle-dragging riffs out there -- snappy bursts of double bass, bizarre lead harmonies, nothing is off limit as long as it rocks. Supersonic Megafauna Collision isn't aiming to reinvent any facets of the genre, instead conquering the existing pillars of doom metal and gathering them all under one enormous hoof.
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Supersonic Megafauna Collision releases April 5th via Heavy Psych Sounds.
