"If you like your doom on the heavy and groovy side,
this band will blow you away." -- CVLT Nation (Top 10 Doom Releases of
2016)
"A lot like what I'd imagine Neurosis would sound like
if they attempted to be Sleep in the early 2000s. The vocals are more
throat-shredding than the latter's, and the music is certainly more in the vein
of Neurosis' swirling brand of sludge." -- Metal Injection
"Flood shows a particular focus on songcraft, one that
uses proggy stoner riffs to keep a hypnotic cadence while the vocals guide you
on a melodic journey -- think of the approach on an Om
record, but with more changes in the riffs. Hypnotic, Krautrock-inflected
doom." -- Revolver Magazine
Swedish trio Domkraft are streaming their forthcoming
sophomore album Flood in its entirety starting today via Revolver Magazine.
Hear and share the full length HERE. (Direct Soundcloud.)
Metal Injection recently shared lead single "The
Watchers" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp) Doomed & Stoned launched
"Landslide" HERE.
The album will be the first release on new label Blues
Funeral Recordings, founded by former MeteorCity (Truckfighters, Nebula, The
Obsessed) cofounder Jadd Shickler.
Domkraft will also appear on Magnetic Eye Records' massive
Pink Floyd homage, THE WALL [REDUX]. Out in November, the song-by-song
recreation and reimagining of the iconic Floyd double album features
recognizable artists including The Melvins, Mark Lanegan, ASG, Pallbearer, Ruby
the Hatchet and Scott Reeder, and includes Domkraft's rendition of the song, "Empty
Spaces."
Musically, Sweden
has always been exceptional at sensing and seizing upon significant
moments. And at a time when political
chaos and societal unrest have deadened our senses, it takes a band with
monolithic, hypnotic power to secure our attention and offer a mollifying score
to civilization's decline. Domkraft are that gloriously massive and
land-levelling band.
If debut album The End of Electricity was the soundtrack to
the impending apocalypse, then follow-up Flood provides the musical backdrop to
armageddon in full, The Purge-style swing. A strong contender to dominate a
style some are calling the New Wave of Swedish Doom Metal, Domkraft wield a
mindbending soundscape of obeliskian riff-majesty, layer upon layer of crushing
fury weaving through the wormhole punctures of spacetime in defiance of
beginnings and endings.
Majestic, annihilating, reductive and roaring, Flood merges
blackwater tributaries from Neurois, YOB, Monolord, and Windhand into an
all-encompassing torrent of nothingness and resignation, but in the most
singable, appealing way imaginable. There is no fan of blistering, melodic doom
on earth who should be without this record.
DOMKRAFT. Their name combines the Swedish "DOM"
for judgement and "KRAFT" for power.
The seeds for this monolithic Stockholm band were planted in Gothenburg,
where bassist/singer Martin Wegeland, guitarist Martin Widholm and drummer
Anders Dahlgren met while playing in various musical constellations.
Bonding over the likes of Spacemen 3, Monster Magnet, Sleep
and Hawkwind, plus a fascination with trudging, 10-minute/three chord songs,
they finally came together after each relocated to Stockholm. Drawing from the
heaviest of their combined influences, the three spent spent years shaping and
crafting a sound that blends towering dirges of annihilating doom, mindbending
psychedelia, and hypnotic minimalism.
"Our songs build from one riff, played LOUD, then we
add and lose parts to mold it into something powerful," says
bassist/vocalist Martin Wegeland. "Focusing on the dramaturgy of the
songs, we have clear images in mind when writing, often inspired by films like Jake
Paltrow's Young Ones, Stephen Fingleton's The Survivalist and (of course) The
Road Warrior, though we never let it interfere with the groove and energy. The
results of our songwriting method may differ in shape from one song to the
next, but the foundation is always the same -- repetition and volume! You'll
eventually get sick of every melody, but grooves are forever."
Flood will be available on LP and download on October 19th,
2018 via Blues Funeral Recordings.
Artist: Domkraft
Album: Flood
Record Label: Blues Funeral Records
Release Date: October 19th, 2018
01. Landslide
02. The Watchers
03. Flood
04. They Appear To Be Alive
05. Sandwalker
06. Octopus
07. Dead Eyes, Red Skies
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