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7.0
- Band:
Aganoor - Duration: 00:39:24
- Available from: 6/06/2025
- Label:
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My Kingdom Music
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There are records that at the first impression risk deceiving listeners and professionals. Take for example “Bury My Soul”, the song that opens “Doomerism”, the debut of the Romans Aganoor: a minute of solid and well settled riffs are enough on a hard rock rhythmic base to place the band in the same Stoner-Sound Aquitrino in which the Goatsnake are happy.
A pleasant sound for lovers of the genre like the writer, of course, but sectoral and all in all not very surprising in the most canonical parts. The amazement, however, heads here and there continuing to listen to the work, because the subsequent “Icarus” already lingers in the Stomp r'n'r of Presleyana memory of Danzig, a stasis full of tension in which “Nadir” also moves, between desert guitars, filtered voices and a persuasive refrain.
The second part of “Doomerism” shows greater courage, because “Esmerald Lake” (one of the two individual extracts) draws on the romantically Gothic source of the Type or negative of the “Octaber Rust” period, almost as if the late Pete Steele had found himself by mistake at the Rancho de la Luna, while “Morbid Skin” embraces the most Orthodox component of the Doom, with a Melodia blues in blues in blues. Nice evidence. “Mind Shadowing” closes, the passage of the setlist with the most dilated sounds, a claudicating slut of great charm, in balance between the most experimental Melvins and motorpsycho.
“Doomerism” is an intriguing debut, especially in its second facade where the band allows itself to be more divagations from the traditional Stoner: among its merits a solid writing and the technical expertise of the band (good work on the guitars of Anth Maelstrom) includes, to which is added the sound built in Danilo Silvestri's study (Greenmountainaudio), already at work with the Doomraiser and Venus in Vegas after a good part of the career passed between punk (Judas) and Indie-noise (lake); It is therefore not surprising that the quartet has landed on the now historic My Kingdom Music by Francesco Palumbo, which has always been passionate about Gothic and ritual atmospheres. Next, allow yourself a walk in their desert: the panorama that can be glimpsed on the horizon is promising.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
