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| Droner |
How many times have you watched a commercial and genuinely believed that they were telling you the truth?
What about movie trailers?
Seriously, what's up with these things where you check out a trailer and it looks amazing so you buy a ticket.
But then after you've spent forty five minutes watching commercials, movie trivia, and a bunch of other misleading previews, your movie comes on...
And it has nothing to do with what you paid to see? I don't understand that at all. Wouldn't it be better for the proper audience to go to a movie rather than a misled gentry who's only going to blast that flick on the internet afterwards?
As for the album we're considering today, it is precisely what they have advertised.
Opium Warlord's Droner is an extra large (read: three sided) LP featuring only three songs.
They all clock in around twenty minutes in length.
The songs themselves are a mishmash of instrumentals, what appears to prophet rantings, and confessions of lucid dreamer.
The best genre description for Droner is avant garde atmospheric doom metal, but that's just me throwing words together to make it sound more epic than it is.
If there was a musical equivalent of Gibby Hayne's character from the video of Pepper, it would be this album.
This record is definitely pouring like an avalanche, and it appears that the band has just come down from the mountain.
Instead of pounding beats, demonic vocals, and self-indulgent solos, the tracks on Droner take their time to fully realize themselves. Very few bands have the kind of patience and wherewithal to wait it out.
There's not going to be a hit single from this set, but for fans of music that's off the beaten path, Droners is probably just what we're looking for.
Release: 11/3/17
Genre: Doom Metal
Label: Svart Records
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