Lord Mountain – The Oath
King Volume Records / Kozmik Artifactz – 2023
Doom, Metal, Traditional, Rock, Stoner
Rated: ****
Coming in second on the January 2023 Doom Charts, was Lord Mountain and their new release The Oath. An album that the Doom Charts Contributors had been spinning since early December when the promo arrived. An album not everyone might have been expecting, unless they had received word about their lone single back in 2020. Cause before that, there was only that self-titled debut EP in 2016 and then a lot of silence. That’s quite a few years. But we can sort of safely state, it was worth the wait. For the Californian four return with a golden nugget of traditional styled metal. That vintage sounding doom, with overtones of power riffs and fantasy styled lyrics, that thanks to the vocalist, will surely have you imagining those savage quests and perilous journeys you always hoped you would experience at least once. Indeed, the eight tracks on The Oath will feel like a full-on adventure, filled with enough mystique and lore to last you a lifetime. Those galloping rhythms, the flying guitar solos, those drums giving all the compositions so much breathing room and yes, that definitive vintage feeling. Cause even if there are guitar parts that will surely make you think about the eighties metal era, most of it takes you back to the seventies and what we now usually think off as proto. But whatever era you might think off as the riffs fly around your ears, the vocals will drag you away from those thoughts and will simply deliver you to the metal worshipping altar. Cause that’s what Lord Mountain does best, deliver you everything good about metal. And doom. And it will surely have you make a solemn promise to listen to more doom… And metal… And Lord Mountain!
(Written by JK)
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