LP Review: Varego - I, Prophetic (2019)
For their ten years anniversary Genovesan band Varego has provided a beautiful present for their fans. This February the heavy sludgy quartet released their fourth full-length album "I, Prophetic" via Italian Stoner, Doom, and Sludge label Argonauta Records. I am very happy to present those beatifully dragging, heavy, and sludgy eight tracks to you. Varego's "I, Prophetic" opens with calm but thrilling piano intro directly leading into the first track "The Abstract Corpse" through a machine gun-like drum fill. From that moment on Varego are wading through a thick swamp of slow Heavy Metal riffs, stomping Hardcore attitude, gloomy atmosphere, and gorgeous chorals. The soundscape Varego create on "I, Prophetic" is a sombre sphere between dusk and dawn with cold winds blowing over a pre-apocalyptic scenery. Disharmonic crunchy create a raw layer dancing across the warm but massive bass lines while the battery brachially marches through the ...