����� Now available on gatefold vinyl, and back in stock on CD.

����� Another slab of titanic space-sludge sparked up by the folks over at Neurot, Dark Buddha Rising's latest album Inversum (the band's fifth) ascends into similar magma-encrusted, mesmeric realms of skygazing heaviness as recent offerings on the label from Ufomammut and Yob. Made up of two epic-length tracks that sprawl out for nearly an hour, the album starts off with some deep, languorous psychedelia that moves slowly across the beginning of "ESO", as delay-drenched guitars echo ominously across a fog of down-tuned amplifier rumble and elliptic tribal drumming that's swathed in sinister atmosphere. Super heavy and seriously stoned, it's all about surging mutation from there as the band lumbers through a series of increasingly frantic shifts in sound. Early on the tracks develop out of that zonked-out psychedelia and chanting monotone voices and star-scraping fx-drenched guitar explorations, building into burly fuzz-blasted doom riffs and more deranged, delirious vocals, and dissolving into massive walls of swirling, corrosive noise, or evolving into a wicked, almost Goblin-esque passage of trance-inducing prog.

����� But there's also this perpetual circular quality to their spaced-out doom that kind of reminds me of their Finnish brethren in Circle. There's definitely a similar propensity for massive ouroboros -like riffs and a heavy hypnotic pull to the way they structure these songs. Things get a little more mellow on the other track "EXO", though, as it flows from softly wavering fields of glistening ambience flecked with mysterious, distant noises, before eventually slipping into more of that slow-burn tribal percussion, hypnotic rhythms amid a thickening fog of celestial guitar and howling effects overload, once again slowly building into something mesmeric, even ritualistic, before finally dropping into another one of their titanic riff-hammers and looping, lysergic drone-clouds, the sound thick and rumbling and electrified, the album culminating with a blast of monstrous metallic psychedelia.

����� Safe to say that if you've been digging the sort of spaced-out psych-metal that Neurot seems to be infatuated with lately, Dark Buddha Rising's down-tuned hypno-metal will satiate that same hunger, it's prog-tinged droning ultra-heaviness etched in visions of a devouring universe, a crushing mandala of Hawkwindian mayhem and riff-trance in thrall to the Kali Yuga. So cool.