Members:
Brian Pitt - Drums
Lee Pitt - Guitar
Sarah Pitt - Vocals
Tracklist:
1.Demon
2.Violent Night
3.Smoke Mountain
This band coming from Florida arose in
2015. Smoke Mountain is Sarah Pitt on
vocals, Sarah's husband Lee Pitt on guitar and Lee’s brother Brian on drums.
In May they relased their self titled EP,
written and produced by the band but mastered by the well known Carl Saff
(Attala, LoPan). On the record Lee plays
bass but during the live shows they skip it. These three songs are a good
introduction for me and I'm eager to hear some more from the band in the
future.
The first song ”Demon” introduces the listener
to the EP with a sampling about witches before a catchy melody kicks in. I love
the dirty, fuzzed out main riff and the airy-fairy constant drum beat.
It surrounds the fuzz laden sound and the
lovely haunting voice of Sarah. I love
how her voice is mixed to be the focal point of the record, but I don't feel
like the vocals are overproduced.
She’s guiding the listener
through the heavy yet catchy fuzzed out melody in a delightful way. Maybe it's the family bond creating an
immense chemistry between the band? At
least that's what I hear.
“Violent Night”, the next song, is my
favorite. It has a howling guitar-figure
in the beginning and a massive deluge of doom riffs hammering into your ear
canal during the rest of the song before the sweetest Black Sabbath riff Iommi
never wrote kicks in. I’m also impressed
how the guitar and cymbal crashes are fit into the song. It's the sweetest perfection
On ”Smoke Mountain” Sarah's voice is
outstanding once again. She attacks the
harsh lyrics with a spooky vibe. The
first time I listened to it I was lying in bed trying to sleep but during the
song I needed to light my bedroom lamp because I thought she was singing from
the top-point of my bed. It was
certainly a time to look over your shoulder not only once but twice! Thankfully I realized her haunting voice only
exists in my head. The lo-fi distorted
sound makes me shiver inside my bones and this is the best tribute to the
classic old doom-bands in a long time.
This isn’t something new and many band have
sounded like this before but still I’m in urgent need of more songs from the
band. It’s an overwhelming rendezvous of
modern Doom and Stoner Metal and I really hope this band will give us a full
length album soon.
Lovely.
-Doomsdaysjesus
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