War Iron have always been a twin bass sludge-doom metal act devoted to a distinctive mountain-crumbling, pulverizing sound, where heavy, slow and raw vibrations and ferocious vocals coexist with dark and eerie atmospheres. Back in 2006 War Iron raised from the ashes of The Naut, which was the cradle for their mates in Slomatics too. War Iron’s warriors, i.e. Baggy on vocals, Ross and Dave on bass and Marty on drums, unleashed their imposing debut album The Faceless Sea back in 2010. Since then they have been releasing their music regularly, with the second full-length album The Fifth and Final Sun and, soon after, their split with Glaswegian doomsters in Headless Kross in 2012, and a demo and the EP Of Prophecy and Alchemy during 2013.
Last year the band spent time in live activity and in writing new music for the new album, Precession of the Equinoxes, graced by a dark, spellbinding and utmost doomy cover art. Rarely an album title was chosen with more smart reference to planetary slow, heavy sound! In the same way as a planet changes the orientation of its rotation axis slowly and continuously by wobbling under gravity effects, so War Iron have been moulding their style within the doom realm. One of the changes has been the adoption of guitar replacing one of the two basses (Ross’). But don’t worry: gravity is still there, in full! Hence in the new album you will find old as well new elements of War Iron’s music. Precession of the Equinoxes: over 36 minutes for four pieces. And then you’ll have to multiply for the effect of addiction ….
Keep War Iron’s Facebook page checked out for the new album and, if you are at reach in Belfast on March 27th, go to Dragon Records!
But don’t miss War Iron’s previous releases, available at the band’s merch page on Bandcamp in digital as well as cool, fancy, solid CDs and LPs formats.
Words: Marilena Moroni