Guest Musicians:
Ain Soph Aour( NECROMASS ) Vocals (track 3)
JC CHaos ( NECROMASS ) Guitar solo (track 5)
TRACKLIST
1 - Caligula
2 - Cult Of The Witch Goddess
3 - I Drink Your Blood
4 - O Fera Flagella
5 - Dead King Rise
The newborn label " Italian Doom Metal Records " is going to reissue the brillant psych/doom "Fangs Of The Molossus" debut album in vinyl edition, the release date is approximately late 2014/ january 2015
Almost 40 minutes of HEAVY Psich/Doom will blow your mind !
Mandatory for fans of Electric Wizard , Blood Farmers , Pentagram , Serpent Venom , Hawkwind , Black Sabbath.
Pressing infos:
- Die Hard Edition : 100 copies Blood Red Trasparent Vinyl + insert
- Regular Edition : 400 copies Black Vinyl + insert
Three awesome news from the Psych/Doom masters "Fangs Of The Molossus":
1) We're constantly working on the tracks for our new album. Can't wait to record and see what comes out.
Get ready for something slower, heavier and also a bit different from what you may expect.
Some of the working titles: "Under the Yoke of Jupiter", "In the Wake of the Plague", "Adrift", "Tenebrarum", "Swamp People" and "Black Queen of Phobos".
2) A couple of gigs nearby will be announced soon.
3) Chances are our first self-produced record is going to be reissued on vinyl. More news to come.
I Fangs Of The Molossus sono una Psych/Doom Metal band toscana formatasi nel 2011 e ,dopo diversi cambi di line-up, nel 2012 giungono ad una formazione stabile caratterizzata dalla presenza di tre chitarristi.
Debuttano con un CD omonimo che raccoglie cinque coinvolgenti brani, in due dei quali ( "I Drink Your Blood" e "Dead King Rise" )vantano la prestigiosa partecipazione di Ain Soph Aour e JC Chaos , rispettivamente bassista/cantante e chitarrista della " cult " Black Metal Band italiana Necromass.
Il brano di apertura è la sabbatiana e ossianica "Caligula" dalle tinte squisitamente psichedeliche ( o esoteriche ) arricchita da assoli di chitarra che evocano i migliori Pentagram dei 70's ed il guitar style delle heavy/rock band americane di quegli anni.
La seconda song "Cult Of The Witch Goddess" denota un attitudine space/doom abilmente ispirata al sound dei Hawkwind, un vortice di sonorita che ipnotizzera' le vostre menti in un atmosfera macabra e oscura...
Segue l'energica "I Drink Your Blood" dominata da un cantato ruvido e tagliente che accompagna ritmi ossessivi da "true headbangers".
Dopo le sfuriate psych/Doom dei precedenti tre brani è il momento della song strumentale"O Fera Flagella"; nelle prime note puo apparire "soft" ma si conclude invece con un sinistro echeggiare di una voce che narra antiche e lugubri tradizioni cristiane esercitate per commemorare sanguinosamente la flagellazione di Cristo il giorno del Venerdi Santo.
Il Cd termina con la potente e minacciosa "Dead King Rise" che si apre con un intro dai toni lisergici e prosegue con un doom nebbioso e apocalittico e a tratti malinconico.
Nel sound di questo interessante esordio sono amalgamati l'oscurita dei Black Sabbath, la psichedelia e lo space/rock degli Hawkwind con l'energia del doom degli Electric Wizard e un lontano retrogusto dark/seventies che solo pochi gruppi come questo sanno unire intelligentemente a sonorita "moderne".
I Fangs Of The Molossus , con questo ottimo debutto , possono meritatamente imporsi tra le migliori band emergenti della scena Psych/Doom italiana.
NOTE:
- Trovate altre info riguardo la band su questo articolo : (qui)
- A breve uscira' il sigolo "I Drink Your Blood" ( 7' gold vinyl )
- La band suonera' il 14 Agosto presso il "MusicaW Festival" a Castellano Marittima (PI) (Evento su FB)
Sometime ago I was shooting on you tube hoping to discover new bands and interesting songs, i accidentally came across a video "Caligula".....and I was particularly well impressed about it.
I realized that it was a new Italian band and the song that I heard was the first song to be proposed by them
To satisfy my interest, I asked them to write their presentation , to expose the project to the public still does not know them...
"""""Fangs
Of The Molossus are a psych-doom metal band from the Florence area.
The first band nucleus dates back to 2011, but several line-up
changes caused delays and we reached some stability only in late
2012. Currently the band consists of Acid King Khanjia (vocals &
guitar), Amp Zilla (lead guitar & space FX), Count J. Vendetta
(guitar & space FX), Daemon Nox (bass guitar) and our newest
member Iako (drums).
By
the way…. yes, three guitars.
We
all have a previous musical experience in bands that are/were
sometimes radically different from Fangs' doom: Combo De La Muerte,
Bobby Tumultous, Tombstone, Cleaver, Bud
Spencer Drunk Explosion, Riviera, El
CardinalAndTheElectric
Dicks… From straightforward metal to garage rock or latin jazz,
we've separately done them all (all genres: no pun intended). Having
a common interest in muddy, slow-paced music too, we just wanted to
see what could come out of this apparently weird mix of players.
In
Fangs Of The Molossus we aim to let most of our influences freely
flow into a unique blend. Music wise, if our backbone is the solid
doom that we all equally enjoy, once in a while you may happen to
hear something that reveals our individual sensibilities: Hawkwind,
Loop, Swans, Danzig, or even
Morphine and Spacemen 3.
It comes completely natural for us to start composing something that
is initially a heavy, rough and obsessive jam (some sort of
psychedelic "ostinato") and end up with something else,
that shares very little with the starting idea. At times structurally
simple and hard rock-ish, other times layered, with frequent
noise/drone or space rock intervals, we don't always know what the
final output of a song will be. And on stage many tracks become
longer, or get faster. Most of our tunes also change over time, until
we feel, like now, that a recording "gravestone" needs to
be placed.
As
for the lyrics, there are many inspirations and, again, no forced
lowest common denominator. Cheap pseudo-satanism is undoubtedly
funny, but it's not our cup of tea, unless proposed in a cinematic,
artsy way. Same goes with drug-driven stuff. We may find intriguing
subjects anywhere: in ancient Roman or Etruscan history and mythology
just as much as in early 70's horror movies, in science fiction
literature, in a Beksinski painting or in a comic book by Hideshi
Hino. Escapism, of course. But who would expect cocky social
commentary or political commitment from a doom outfit?
Going
back to the music, after a few warm-up gigs with our current line-up,
supporting bands like Caronte, our close friend Giulio's Funeral
Marmoori, Electric Taurus and Witche's Brew, we focused on the tunes
we found more defining for our sound and started recording our
four-track debut, that will be released in 2013.
We
still can't tell about the release format, though. Depending on the
mutually beneficial label or distro offers we receive, it could be
all tracks in CD or 10" record format, only two of them as a 7"
single, one by one for digital download, or
any other viable combination.We
have already been contacted regarding future Scandinavian, Italian
and U.S. distribution, but our main concern now is to get all tracks
done. Then we'll see. If no agreement is reached, no problem: D.I.Y.
has always been and will forever be an option.
In
the meantime, you can listen to the first track we made available
online, "Caligula", that also comes with a video, either on
main doom web-radios (Grip Of Delusion Radio, Heavy Handed Radio,
Hand Of Doom Radio, Downtuned Radio) or on our Facebook and
ReverbNation pages.
