Lovingly pinched from OneMetal.com: Two bands, one EP, three tracks each, FIGHT! Well, I say ‘fight’. Given the tones crawling from this particular slab of wax, I reckon you’d be lucky to see much in the way of movement at all from either band save a lazily-flicked spliff and the odd bout of barely-awake coughing. Yes folks, this is dooooooooooooom of the most grandiose and lengthy kind.
Liverpudlian three piece Conan kick off their contribution with ‘Retaliator’, six or so minutes of psychedelic chug and drone lent an extra trippy edge by the dual-vocal stylings. Segueing through the atmospheric instrumental and effected vocals of Mr Dave Anderson (Hawkwind, Amon Duul II) on ‘Obsidian Sword’, Conan give us their true intent with their final offering ‘Older Than Earth’. Calling on Sleep and Yob for inspiration, the band drag us through eleven minutes of the murkiest, dankest fug possible.
Seriously kids, this stuff is quite capable of giving you nightmares – imagine, if you will, the musical result of giving Tom G Warrior 20mg of Valium and making him watch you kick his cat around his lounge. Yep, ‘Older Than Earth’ is a dark trip indeed – relentless, grim (in the true, non-corpsepaint / church-burning sense), and thick with fuzzed-out repetition and creeping menace. Wondrously disturbing stuff, more please!
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