With such a name and a label Stoner setting ahead by the label, one could expect one good moment of Rock of the desert under acid to taste with a happy smile with the lips. But our friends of STONED JESUS arrive to us from Ukraine and preferred to prepare a mixture definitely more adventurous.
Then yes, one finds low mammouthesque, the vocal ones embrumés lost in the mix, of the riffs fats like lard a slice of bread and of the soli inherited the Seventies. None of these ingredients is particularly transcended but the whole is practised with an unquestionable control, in the absence of innovative audacity. An amateur of KYUSS will be able to only adhere to the introduction very Blues space of Falling Apart.
However, STONED JESUS forced the amount on the influences resulting from the Rock psychédélique. In the many planing elements, the structures full of traps testify. Side Stoner psychedelic occupies the front of the scene on Red Wine, the shortest title of the album.
But the true asset of STONED JESUS, it is its propensity to make its matter definitely more sinister and rigorous while returning allegiance to the Masters of the Doom extreme to the REVEREND BIZARRE or ELECTRIC WIZARD. Illustration: the album comprises four titles, Red Wine acting as single with its five minutes. The three other titles exceed the ten minutes and are pretext to be amalgamated groove hypnotic of the Stoner, the severe skids psychedelic and the lancinances rhythmic of the Doom extreme (riff martial repetitive, désincarné song). Black Woods is for this reason very representative since the principal melodies seem left an album of BLACK SABBATH period Ozzy (song in particular!), but the general atmosphere derives largely towards an icy rhythmic obsession. The manner that has STONED JESUS to hammer a rhythmic topic can point out - in less to the boutist - the search of riff ultimate which prevailed at SLEEP.
the risk with this kind of mixture, it is to lose themselves on the way, to fall into the abuse and excess. Although frankly barred, the compositions present on First Communion always end up falling down on a discussion thread: a rhythmic plan, a melody. In addition, the clearness of the mixing and the depth of the production help considerably to preserve a coherence. Excellent first communion, highly the solemn communion