LA IRA DE DIOS

The first studio album of this band starts with a dark soundscape, where bass and drums enter, creating surface for an oppressing guitar chords to start the hypnotic musical trip. This fine angry stuff has been done with quite nice sense of style, it doesn't go too modern metal sounds, but still from the vintage tones rises a really hard and heavy approach. After the album's title song, "Perdido En El Espacio" returns from the fade out with more garage rock oriented lighter sound, with some Hawkwind resembling elements present. Interesting effect switches in the throttle of slow acid blues in following "A Tres Mil Años Blues", a fine dramatic progression later evolves as faster stoner rock. "Ruge" calms the record with a pretty acoustic style, featuring some singing, guitar solos and hazy psychedelic effects. The nin "La Señal", calm loose chords open the track, entering vocals give hint of approaching storm and the pressure gets heavier, and the tension is released in heavy stoner rock section. "Empírea" is the longest track here, opened by short ambience, developing patiently with neat theme alterations heavier in style characteristic to this fine group. The record closes with a more traditional garage punk sounds of the song "Cabalgando En La Oscuridad". Anybody interested of raw, trashy and heavy vintage psychedelic rock with stoner rock influences should check this record and band out, if not yet familiar.

This album focuses to shorter songs, containing few longer stoner epics also. In the first track "Quemando" powerful shifts of two notes create raw & solemn opening, released by aggressive crash leading to a repetitive stoner rock chord tunnel familiar from band's earlier records. The spaced-out vocals are treated quite heavily with echoes and other effects. The following shorter heavy psych punk tracks flavored by cosmic synths follow each other with minimal pauses, and like the album title suggests, they are quite angry and powerful in style. The faster short songs are also companied by a slower trippy acid blues for screaming guitars, and fine fully instrumental rocker. The album closes then again with a longer stoner track with great instrumental jammings. I personally am little bit more interested of this aspect of this group, though the tracks which less "progressive" in the classical sense are good too. If you like well composed and performed aggressive shorter psychedelic rock songs too, this album delivers it. For the fans of more meditative droning, I recommend the two earlier albums by this group.

This group from Peru has delivered a really fine dark cosmic album. Please behold some of my diary remarks from this archaic trip offered by them;

A quiet dark sound wall starts "Archaeopterix", hard riffs slowly entering without haste, then building up a dark stoner rock progression with spaced-out synths (wow). Echoed vocals aren't very heavy, not making this very metal-oriented music, and thus probably more accessible to vintage music listeners too. Beautiful minor chords open slowly then "El Llamado", building up another dark cosmic vision containing some experimental aural activities and really fine guitar solo. Bass brings in a key progression, and power escalates. In the third track "Al Viento", an acid blues starts to grown in over distantly humming delicate and vast aural space, containing persistent hypnotic minimalism. After nine minutes the pressure relieves to a quiet moment visited by echoed sounds, and then a new theme starts to build from simple guitar key as drum enters with a jazzy restless rhythm, creating a quite oppressive sequence. In song "Nave F'enix" dirty "radiophonics" skimmer in the global stratosphere, joined by funky drums attracting distorted bass and guitar to crash another fine stoner rock progression circling steadily in the orbit. Nice backwards treated vocals drive forward this powerful rollercoaster ride. Final epic "Cordillera" is the longest track here, running over 24 minutes. It starts with a sad, oriental sounding chords, later a hallucinogenic motive is introduced going to heavier levels again, rhythm stopping and continuing periodically. A quiet phase enters, having minimalistic throttle fully switched in. creating a long wave of psychedelic cosmic sound.

The evolvement of music as such waves is quite characteristic to this record, growing from open, quiet calm sections to more harder stoner riff progressions. I think it's nice, making this as a pleasant to listen, and the heavier parts have counterpoints for balance. Recommended warmly for fans of cosmic-flavored stoner rock. Appreciation of raw and heavy sounds are necessary, but there are no growling vocals here, so don't panic if allergic for them. References for comparison could be a little heavier and more stoner rock oriented incarnation of Swedish The Spacious Minds, maybe blended with elements from early Black Sabbath doom tracks.