Album Review: Lunar Swamp - Moonshine Blues (2021)
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| Picture Credit: Lunar Swamp Artwork: Steven Yoyada |
Lunar Swamp - Moonshine Blues
Release Date: July 02, 2021
Label: The Swamp Records / Clostridium Records / Burning Coffin Recs
Format: Vinyl / CD / Cassette / Digital
Length: 35:38
Genre: Shamanic Doom Blues
Origin: Catanzaro, Italy
A bit over a year ago, Catanzaro's Shamanic Doom Blues trio Lunar Swamp released their first mini-album / EP "UnderMudBlues". Now, their first full-length "Moonshine Blues" is out and available via The Swamp Records (CD), Clostridium Records (Vinyl), and Burning Coffin Recs (Chile). One can argue that the debut album is only eight minutes longer than the 2020 EP. But different to the previous release, "Moonshine Blues" is avalaible in all relevant physical formats.
On six new tracks, Mark Wolf (vocals, harp), S.M. Ghoul (drums), and Machen (guitars, cigar box guitar) embrace the night and the apocalypse. Their Shamanic Doom Blues is an honest worship of the forefathers of Doom. Thus, "Moonshine Blues" is rooted in legendary soundscapes as produced by Black Sabbath, Candlemass, or Lord of the Grave.
Fuzzy and swampy as eschaton itself, Lunar Swamp bring the doom to your stereos. Dynamic Blues Rock grinds on heaving Doom Metal rhythms while a Heavy Metal guitar shoots through the oozy soundscape like lightning. The harp played by vocalist Mark Wolf adds a further Blues element to this occult work, and his echoing vocals appear like an eschatologian sermon.
"Moonshine Blues" is far from being the reinvention of Doom Metal or Blues Rock. Still, it is a stunning album, timeless like early Black Sabbath, and not outdated at all.
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