Black Sleep of Kali - Our Slow Decay

by Christophe

Well, when these guys decided on their band name, they should've known that every interview and every review would at some point refer to "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", as Indy suffers from the Black Sleep of Kali Ma after he drinks some kind of potion. It's some kind of trance.

And musically, these dudes almost got me there, with very groovy down tuned riffs, sludgy stoner metal and headbang-able material reminiscent of, ehm, Remission. You know, the Mastodon album;

So if you're into the old Mastodon and Torche, you'll love this rocking album.

But I would love the vocals to be a little more intense. Because now, at some points, they just downplay the awesomeness of Black Sleep of Kali's debut full-length.
Score: 7 out of 10
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