LESBIAN Forestelevision 2LP psychedelic prog-metal asva mammatus La Otracina NEW

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LESBIAN Forestelevision 2 x LP

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 After putting out a couple of albums on Important and Holy Mountain, the oddly named quartet Lesbian (which includes current and former members of such disparate acts as avant-doom metallers Asva, the obscure experimental metal project Your Cell: Yourself, legendary crossover thrasher The Accused and experimental grinders The Abodox) has once again resurfaced out of the Cascadian wilds of the Pacific Northwest with their third album, Forestelevision. Now finding themselves on the Philly label Translation Loss, a label that seems to be carving out a particular niche for this sort of experimental, sludgy slow-mo metal, Lesbian have deviated from their previous releases by delivering just one epic album-length song, the forty-five minute title track, filling up the disc a la Sleep or Corrupted. It's also some of the best stuff I've heard from these guys, a delirious fusion of Hawkwindian space rock, jazzy psychedelic ambience, black metal, death metal, doom, classical speed metal, and dark King Crimson-esque prog that is spread out across the monolithic track, the song seemingly divided into a number of different passages where the band shifts in sound every few minutes, feinting with false starts and stylistic fake-outs while tying it all together as one epic piece of sprawling, imaginative psych-metal.
   Opening with a dramatic gust of kosmische synths and down-tuned Earthen guitar drones, Forestelevision surges into view with a kind of saurian psychedelia, massive Earthen riffs dragging themselves across the sparkling electronic filigree and gleaming background melodies. When the drummer finally drops in, it's a muffled detonation of percussive power, a crushing slow-motion propulsion that begins pushing through the increasingly malevolent sound of Lesbian's blackened doom metal. The vocals are a mix of high pitched shrieks and deeper, more monstrous bellowing, at times turning into an almost death-metal style vocal assault, but there are also huge swathes of the album that are purely instrumental, those harsher vocals only appearing at select moments. The synthesizers are present through the entire track, up front in the mix and giving the band's labyrinthine doom this killer space rock element, that at times launches into driving. mid-tempo riff-trances that sound like a heavier, sludgier Hawkwind, a leaden krautrock throb fused to grinding guitar. Elsewhere in the song, Lesbian slip into long passages of groovy, spaced-out Sabbathian prog, huge wah-drenched riff workouts that run around in circles as they layer more of those whirling, trippy synth sounds across the pounding, lumbering heaviness. Other parts of the song slip into a kind of blackened rock, sinister dissonant guitars wrapping around that creepy pummeling prog rock, and elsewhere they head off into a wicked classic heavy metal attack, the song suddenly surging into pounding double bass and driving, quasi-thrash riffage, a weird spaced out speed metal sound surrounded with squalls of crazed shredding solos. Some crushing deathdoom shows later on, slow-moving riffage creeping glacially through a vortex of cosmic noise and effects, only to transform into another frenetic rhythmic prog freak-out, and at the thirty three minute mark, the music shifts into an utterly gorgeous stretch of sylvan folk-flecked psychedelia that then transforms into an AWESOME blast of Mercyful fate-like speed metal, a darkened version of classic NWOBHM style riffage, the vocals suddenly veering in with the singer suddenly shifting into an awesome falsetto wail that sounds incredibly like King Diamond, that classic speed metal sound backed by ominous choral voices. There are tons of left-field moments like that scattered throughout Forestelevision, a sorta kitchen-sink collection of all of Lesbian's musical interests patched together into a kind of prog-metal gumbo, but it's a fun listen for sure, and fans of the heavier, more metallic side of modern psychedelia and bands like Mammatus, Circle, Hawkwind and La Otracina will probably love this.
   The CD edition of Forestelevision comes in digipack packaging, while the vinyl version splits the track across four sides in a deluxe double LP edition that also includes an additional bonus "outro" track, and both versions are adorned in fantastic album art from illustrator Arik Roper.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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