Maha Sohona – A Dark Place
Bonebag Records – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****
We never got around to mentioning their 2021 album Endless Searcher on Stoner HiVe. But luckily, enough followers voted for the album for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021. So it ended up on Number 17 that year. But perhaps that Maha Sohona album should have been higher up. And perhaps their new one A Dark Place will?!
For there’s a storm brewing in the underground, a hum that rattles your ribcage, and somewhere through all that haze, Maha Sohona is steering their mighty ship straight and with intent through the cosmic fog. Turning their new album A Dark Place into a gravitational event. Darker, heavier, more introspective and with even more teeth than their earlier albums, A Dark Place bites and claws its way out of the void. Your pulse with synch with the heartbeat rhythm and you will slowly dissolve into its atmospheric sound.
And even if the production and mix sound like they could have added a tiny extra bit of oomph, the Swedish trio still sound like the masters they are when it comes to binding chaos and darkness with beauty and weight. Riffs that lurch forward, breathe their otherworldly odor down your neck and topple like tectonically wrecked mountains. Courtesy of those drums that are marking time in a way that sounds earthy and ancient. And whenever A Dark Place lifts, and pulls towards the shimmering infinite in the distance, you will feel that is the tension between falling and flight, smoke and starfire, that the Swedish three have been aiming for.
Once second track and single Visions hits, you will feel the air around you start to bend, you will swear you can taste the electricity and will be convinced that for a moment, for just a fraction of a second, you’ve met your own reflection on the other side of that sound. With A Dark Place, Maha Sohona have created a threshold, a way to push the books from the bookshelf, it often feels like there’s a message in there from somewhere else. And even though we are uncertain if the three even know it’s there, we are certain that their compositions, all wrapped in starlight and dread, will stand tall for all eternity. And will be waiting, with lantern in hand, to see who is still wandering around in A Dark Place…
(Written by JK)
You can listen to the sounds from the other side through the first single Visions right now...
And be ready for the entire alternate Maha Sohona universe when it drops on November 21st!
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