I won’t lie to you all and tell you I’ve been a Witch Mountain fan for years, in fact this was the first time I had heard the band from Portland, Or whose first release, “Homegrown Doom”, was in 2000. I am without a doubt a late comer to loving the world of doom so I hope you can forgive me for my ignorance. Luckily when I fell in love with all things doom I fell hard but yes, I’m still playing catch up. The good thing about that is I can give you a fresh perspective without any bias based on what Witch Mountain have done previously because I haven’t heard it… yet. I do plan to now. After hearing the first release from “Mobile of Angels”, the intriguingly titled “Psycho Animundi” I can say I most definitely plan to seek out more from this band. Yes, it’s that good!
“Psycho Animundi” begins with a doomed up blues riff that hooked me immediately as I’ve found all the doom I love has a tendency to do. All hail the mighty doom riff! Then about a minute in the wonderful voice of Uta Plotkin blasts out at you hooking you in even further. Her voice is powerful, haunting and beautiful. All good doom, at least for me, addicts you to a great riff that you never want to end and “Psycho Animundi” is one damn good doom ride. We get to ride that opening riff for almost 9 minutes though it’s with a few interludes so that when it blazes back in it hits you straight in the gut grabbing ahold of your spine rendering you immobile until sadly it releases you when the song ends. All you can do is hit play again as I have done now more times that I should admit. Needless to say you should be looking forward to the September 30th release date so you can hear all 5 of the bluesy doom tracks it contains!
Listen to “Psycho Animundi” and get dates for Witch Mountain’s upcoming tour with Nik Turner’s Hawkwind starting August 26th here (link: https://www.profoundlorerecords.com/witch-mountain-complete-work-on-new-album/)
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Words: Feind Gottes ( Thy Demons Be Scribblin.Com )