Alrihkh
Can’t say I’m in love with this album, to be honest. It’s okay, I don’t mind a few of the songs, but for me there’s no standouts. The vocals are far too withdrawn & unclear for my taste. I’ll leave it at that. Took a spontaneous chance on a bargain.
Favorite track: Hollergoblin.
trushuks
I love how it's rock and is full with witchy vibes and sounds like 70's rock. At 1st bought just digital album although I wanted to buy it in vinyl. Fixed it now! Way too many good songs to choose just one of them, album is full of them.
Favorite track: Hollergoblin.
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Understand the way it is
I can’t feel a thing again
Yesterday I wanted to die
And today I feel I just might
I looked up between the trees
Something brought me to my knees
In my hand a metal blade
My greatest triumph would be made
CHORUS:
I thought I’d never see the light alive
Sunken down to my spiritual hive
Emerging from the tallest weeds
Running with countless majestic steeds
A simple setup
Organic and lights
A couple spells
To grow it right
One in a million
Genetics of fire
A metamorphosis
Begins to transpire
It just keeps on growing
With different elements
It learns to feed itself
Magic makes a difference
Pollution helps
Is it just me
Or did it move?
As if it’s reaching
For the moon?
It just keeps on growing
CHORUS:
While wasting away
It feeds on its own decay
Leaves of dismay
I think we’re its prey
Flower looks like blood
Still in the vein
Local flora dried up
Fauna drained
Nothing’s safe
In the day or dark
Like a neverending
Funeral march
It just keeps on growing
CHORUS
Up to the mouth of the holler no one can creep
Six of seven sides are much too steep
CHORUS:
We’d better go
We shouldn’t be here
Get out
Psychotropic guides peer out from dense trees
Existing with or without your belief
In case of gloating
Pierce a lemon with iron nails
In the gloaming,
Shadow of the mind
Gaze of envy forecasts negative energy
To ward off evil, do the following:
Precious stone between eyes
Spitting thrice on your fingers
Spot of dirt on your forehead
Superstition or lies?
CHORUS:
I don’t think you should say that
You never know who could hear you (x2)
Obsessed with compulsion to expel the evil eye
You develop a notion:
Did I overdo it again?
Whatever makes you hopeless,
Aim for smallest modesty
Imagine the danger of seeing positively
You’d hate to lose it all
CHORUS
Praying on their knees in a temple built by bees
Collecting grains of life for their holy queen
Power made by patterns only they can know
Kill the nonbelievers with the harvest that they sow
Oh baby, when you scream
Well, maybe, you’ll see what I mean
Chaos magic
Meta synaptic
Oh baby, when you scream
Well, maybe
Forced into robot geometry, the apis finds its key.
Secreting scents of love, the hive’s ready to break free.
Chaos magic
Meta synaptic
Oh baby, when you scream,
Well, maybe, you’ll see what I mean
It seems so serene
Eastern winds approaching from the scene
In the midst of darkness, it seems so serene
Looking up and looking out the door
It seems so serene
With his hands he motioned to the sky
And with this a flock of birds flew by
Then they nestled with the beasts of prey
CHORUS:
Summoning the earth and seas
And the air of the breeze
Is it cold?
Is it me?
Practicing all his moves,
Hanging upside down,
Sucking acorn juice
From ones he found on the ground
CHORUS:
Since he lost his mind, he found his way – yeah
His castle up above,
Jagged edges that seem to loom
Cursed organs sound out,
Sign and seal your doom
CHORUS
about
Occult New Age is Book of Wyrms at their fastest, slowest, loudest, and weirdest.
For fans of Hawkwind, Blood Ceremony, Elder, Samsara Blues Experiment, Black Angels, the Sword.
Book of Wyrms is a four-piece heavy psych band who came together over their mutual adoration of Hawkwind and ZZ Top and put out a demo in early 2015. It got some positive attention and helped them find their record label for their first two records, Twin Earth Records.
From the beginning, the band foraged strange ingredients for their sonic pot, balancing airy vocals over heavy sludge, cloaking progressive melodies in fuzz, and dropping surprise boogies under retrofuturist synths (people always ask if it's a theremin). Thankfully, people dug it: 2017's Sci-Fi/Fantasy was named one of the best debut albums on the popular website Doomcharts.
The Chicago Reader said 2019's Remythologizer "immediately establishes a welcome atmosphere: dark, doomy, and highly comforting to anyone raised on a diet of D&D, 70s heavy rock, and ditchweed." Surprisingly, with songs inhabited by characters like the Undead Pegasus, kids dig them too!
Whenever they could, the band packed into their shiny starcraft to play dive bars and doom fests from New England to Chicago to Texas, leaving a trail of freaked-out squares and demolished tacos in their wake.
Their third record, Occult New Age, is set to be released on Desert Records in May, 2021. Recording for the first time as a four-piece gave the band space to stretch out a little bit and fill the spectrum with big textures and proggy riffs, but their years playing together give them focus to keep things tight and scatter hooks among the chaos.
credits
released May 7, 2021
Chris DeHaven - Drums and Percussion
Sarah Moore Lindsey - Vocals/ Synthesizer
Jay "Jake" Lindsey - Bass/ Synthesizer
Kyle Lewis - Guitar
Recorded and mixed by Jamie Rose at Absolute Future Studios with Chris Ratterree
Organ on "Speedball Sorcerer" by LJ Rafalko
Layout and font by Nathan Landolt
Album artwork: Taralyn Phillips
High res images by Ben DeHaven
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For some reason, what I previewed and the real songs was somewhat different - maybe because of the cover art?
But I definitely don't regret something more spacial than expected. The recent Ocean drifting in space. frankwurst
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