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ATOMIC CRIES  Suspended Between The Mouth Of God And The Fist Of Man  7" VINYL   (Svart Records)   7.50


Pretty primo two-song Ep from this self-described "Primitive Doom Metal" duo, made up of drummer/bassist/organist Andy Lippoldt (Persistence In Mourning, RL:ZZ, Winters In Osaka) and singer/guitarist Sa�l Do Caix�o. This appears to be their first release following a demo that came out in 2012, a taste of the somber, slightly screwed doom that these guys are starting to amass, and it's got this perfect balance between classical Sabbathian blooze-lurch and a weird, brain-damaged quality that really won me over once the a-side wound down. That first song "False Prophecies" is exactly the sort of thing you'd describe as "trad doom", all lumbering down-tuned power chords, stripped-down, pounding caveman drumming and moaning lamentation that echoes the most dire and dread-filled Saint Vitus sides, but these guys have bent that sound into their own mutant image via those weirdly layered, drugged vocals from Do Caix�o and the filthy, MASSIVE droning bass sound, smears of lysergic Hammond organ oozing in short spurts beneath the despairing lyrics and the band's pervasive atmosphere of abject failure...it's an absolute downer of the highest caliber. The b-side has "The Atheist", another slab of dissonant dread and rumbling slo-mo crush with those reverberating vocals echoing off the walls of their cavernous, barbaric dirge. But then right towards the end, the band shifts out of the crushing funeral march into some fantastic swirling organ drift that loops around and around like some stray keyboard part off a Goblin album, and it's all over with way too soon. Can't wait to hear more from Atomic Cries...