SHRINEBUILDER: SLOW LIKE MOLASSES, AWESOME LIKE A BJ
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
I’ve had some family shit distracting me this week, but there’s really no excuse for the fact that I somehow completely missed the debut of a new song by uber-supergroup Shrinebuilder. Entitled “Pyramid of the Moon” and streaming right here, it is just seven-plus minutes of sheer excellence.
I’m not sure how to describe it, other than to say that it’s doom, and it’s more or less what you’d expect from a band that features members of Neurosis, The Mevlins, Sleep and Saint Vitus. Plus, there are some wacky keyboards and some monk-like chanting, just to give it an extra level of trippy. If you dig doom and you don’t like this song, then I don’t think you really like doom as much as you say you do.
Man, I wish I was high right now. Why am I not high right now?
Check out the song here, then weigh in with your opinions below.
Shrinebuilder’s debut album will be out on Neurot, uh, sometime soon, I hope.
-AR
Wino bless Michael Lira for bringing the song to my attention.
Looking forward to hearing this album
Sounds suitably awsome. Glad this band hasnt let me down, cant wait to hear more.
This album is going to be great
Simply fantastic. Nothing more to say.
every bit as good as i was hoping.
Again again again!!! Stoner boner!!
my false god do i love doom. and ive never listened to it high either
This is what it’s all about. this is fucking amazing. Every bit more the sum of its parts, if that’s even possible.
duh
This is what it’s all about. this is fucking amazing. Every bit more than the sum of its parts, if that’s even possible.
This is what it’s all about. this is fucking amazing. Every bit more than the sum of its parts, if that’s even possible
they live up to the hype, this sounds exactly like i hoped it would
this sounds awesome. i can’t wait to hear more! i’ll definitely have to check out the album when it comes out, which i think is soon, like within the next month.
Their Myspace page simply says October in the quote section so my money is on the new material being released sometime that month.
Will someone explain to Ziltoid what a BJ is so he can understand the analogy?
Dude, I’ve heard the other songs and they’re even better than this track. Sounds exactly like what you’d expect except ten times better.
Release date is Oct. 20th. You can pre-order it here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002L132VU?ie=UTF8&tag=shoctv-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002L132VU
Sounds like Pelican.
Scott Kelly also features the new song on his weekly internet radio show Return To Zero.
http://www.combatmusicradio.com/returntozero/
I’m going to make love to this album.
pretty good… but I’m just not… CRUSHED, y’know? the way Sunn O))) CRUSHES me…
correction: CRUSHED at 4:00 ish
God Dammit, YESSSSS
OHYESOHYESOHYESOHYES!!!!!!!!!!
About damn time!
Fucking killer!
If the rest is even better as Satan Rosenbloom says, this could be the doom record of the year.
It’s like riding a hemp oil waterslide… the hair on the back of my neck is on end and it’s giving me goosebumps listening to it. this is as perfectly doomy as it gets!!!
But Melvinated!
This is only OK; I need to hear more…
And ‘IanP ‘:
Pelican are bed-shitters.
They COULD be so awesome, but let you down in the tightness dept. Not to mention they are boring.
The entire album is amazing. Better yet, was hearing the whole album at Roadburn
I am buying this album as soon as possible. Amazing song.
Vocals are a little weak, until what-sounds-like Al joins in on the chanting ‘ahhh’ stuff. The guitar sound is beyond….anything, really.
evidently, this album is out already… the myspace dates for recording complete are from back in January…and i just d/l the whole 4 song disc
sounds much better than the myspace low quality shit