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- Band:
Margarita Witch Cult - Duration: 00:37:01
- Available from: 07/18/2025
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Heavy Psych sounds
Among all the forgery record labels of novelties Doom, Psych and Stoner, the Heavy Psych Sounds is undoubtedly one of the most talked about the moment. The Roman label, which celebrates the first twenty years of activity this year, has published in recent months the works of Pentagram, Witchcraft, Conan and Warlung, an international importance album, to feed the reputation of a label that perseveres in the spread of a sound capable of combining the juicy genres in a colorful cauldron of heterogeneous bands, with a very large sequel.
In this context, the margarita witch cult, a birmingham trio with beautiful hopes and clear ideas, that is, repeating the good impression aroused by the homonymous debut of two years ago and continue in the wake of a dark hard rock of the seventies with Stoner and Sabbathian influences are inserted.
“Strung Out in Hell” opens with “Crawl Home to Your Coffin”, a song that immediately outlines the coordinates within which all the music of the lineup will be divided more or less, with a sound that seems to come from double the tools declared during the recording phase.
A domineering Fuzz and an elementary and skinny riffing – with some guitar harmonization to give it color – are the fundamental ingredients of the music of the margarita Witch Cult, whose winning card is the ability to set in the sound just described captivating vocal melodies that do not struggle to remain impressed in memory even after a few listening. The subsequent traces are not very devounted: if in “Scream Bloody Murder” and in “Conqueror Worm” to the 'Catchy' refrains there are accompanying raw and picturesque horror texts, “Mars Rover” shows a certain compositional potential that is expressed in 'growing' and rhythmic experiments from the ritual and atmospheric attitude.
The main references of the British trio are to be found mainly in the refined experimentation Doom/Hard Rock of the Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats and in the Warlung psychedelic and swampy verve. Compared to the former, however, the margarita Witch Cult still lacks that synthesis capacity that allows the Cambridge group to write songs almost as a ranking that preserve a rough and underground nature; Compared to the latter, however, the experience of knowing how to purify the songs from redundant instrumental sections is missing, an operation that would allow ours to better enhance what is good in the songs.
Their “White Wedding” cover of Billy Idol is a nice touch of class: slower, heavy is ill 'of the original, it turns here into a dark wedding march that stinks sulfur for all its duration.
The most beautiful surprise, however, as often happens, is placed at the stairs at the lineup, with “Who put beautiful in the watch elm”, which closes the disc with seven minutes of slow descent into darkness: claustrophobic atmosphere, circular riffs and a sense of vague growing tension accompany us to the final explosion.
Compared to the debut, in short, the margarita Witch Cult slightly raise the bar, with a platter of songs that blends in a balanced Stoner, slut and hard rock dyed of Doom, with incisive melodies and horror texts to complete a fascinating picture, which will well satisfy the expectations of those who expect a good gender disc.
What is still missing – net of a very dignified album, produced and played well – is a shot of maturity during the composition and arrangement that can make us think of the margarite Witch Cult not as a band that is inspired by the names mentioned, but as a young and distinct young voice, capable of carving out a place among those groups that today indicate the direction of the genre, more than following it.
If the future will sound like the last minutes of “Who put beautiful in the watch elm”, then it is really worth waiting for him.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
