These becloaked weirdos from Madison, Wisconsin have belched forth a nasty little album of spacey acid-death that'll probably end up falling under the radar of most of the underground metal scene, but fans of gnarly Frostian black magic and the recent spate of retro-psych doom (Devils Blood, Blood Ceremony, etc) would do well to check these guys out. Make no mistake, The Antiprism sure love Celtic Frost (and Hellhammer, Sabbath and Motorhead), and the influence of those Swiss metallers is all over this self-titled debut, but the band puts their own greasy fingerprints all over the old-school metal attack by also throwing in a ton of rollicking classic riffs that feel like they've been imported directly from the NWOBHM scene circa 1983, along with smatterings of spacey psychedelia and pounding garage rock (and apparently a shared appreciation of garage-psych legend Roky Erickson), and best of all, a smokin' co-ed vocal attack that has singer Alex trading off his punky, sneering reverb-soaked vox with the ratty snarls of drummer Kristine. Whenever Kristine enters the picture, I'm constantly reminded of Jennifer Herrema from Royal Trux/RTX, and her snotty snarl definitely gives The Antiprism a unique edge. As do the trippy, off-kilter sounds that the band pulls out unexpectedly on a couple of the songs; "Moonlight Overdrive", for instance, starts off with a catchy Sabbathian groove and introduces some epic guitar lead work, but then towards the end, they introduce a freaking xylophone towards the end, and it sounds great! There's lots of tambourine thrown in here too, and the guitarists freely whip out one soaring dual guitar harmony after another, and they really capture a classic British metal feel with alot of the riffs and leads. Yep, blackened and bent and sludgy, and steeped in basement occultism and cheapo mystical artwork (my god, the album artwork is a Photoshop nightmare!), The Antiprism have come out with a cool, quirky album of killer psych-metal that came as a surprise, especially when I found out that the band features former members of Madison noise-rockers Pachinko!