Acid King (USA),
Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless) with Seedy Jeezus, Los Hombres
Del Diablo - 2016 Doomsday Festival
Newtown Social Club
Friday 30 September 2016
Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless) with
Seedy Jeezus, and Los Hombres Del Diablo had gone down well with the punters by
all reports – details are coming so stay
tuned.
The band room was comfortably full and the crowd was eagerly
awaiting the arrival of Acid King… As soon as the hit they stage, the crowd was
in tune and swaying with their music. Like a Jodorowsky movie, Acid King are a
stoned experience you can have while straight. Their music takes you away to a
new world, an experience. The aural world Acid King create envelopes you like
Alice in Wonderland, or the Matrix. Take the blue pill, or red one (perhaps
both??) and you’ll be transported. Each tune was nearly ten minutes so you had
time to experience their world.
The backdrop of the images and film footage of outer space,
burning buildings, blurred landscapes, and burning planets further takes the
sub bass sounds deeper into your psyche to fuck you up.
These scene veterans were fresh off a bunch of US gigs and the three day Psycho Las Vegas before coming to Australia, you could see and feel that the their tunes are well honed and crafted, played and lived in. Singer Lori’s vocal is a wailful call, like a gently mournful but ominous sounding wind which you might hear coming through the trees in the wilderness. She
simultaneously makes her guitar gently mournfully weep, and espouse other evocative sounds. Bassist Mark Lamb looks
like he’s seeking redemption, or enlightenment, as he wrings his instrument, sweating
and plays a sonic sound as though it’s a torture rack, one’s stretched out on, and
the screws are tightened and wound tauter as their opus' progress. Joey Osbourne pounds
his drum in a hypnotic measured heavy rhythm, beating them strategically, to create these aural dreams (or nightmares to some). Mind expansion was in full effect!
Amongst the five or six tracks they played tonight were 'Red River' off Middle of Nowhere… LP, and their encore
was ‘Sunshine and Sorrow’ from III
I was new to the band, and upon witnessing their mostly
instrumental faire proves a dose worthy taking, for the mind and body. The near
tribal pounding, drawn out and thought out tunes giving one time to sup them up
and savour them fully. It’s worth taking the trip.
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They are playing tonight, Saturday 1st October, in the Northcote Social Club and the last
show of this tour in Australia is tomorrow night, Sunday 2nd October, in Melbourne at the Cherry Bar. Catch them if
you
Acid King 'Red River'
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