From the flourishing
Israeli heavy psych scene, that just keeps on giving amazing new
bands over the past few years, comes another blooming project... Warp, a power trio based in Tel Aviv formed by three friends and
members of various local punk rock bands who wanted to do something
different, with a more riff driven approach and vintage sound. After
several years confined to a basement bending and twisting their sonic
output, the band are finally ready to unleash their impressive debut on CD via Reality Rehab Records (February 15th) and on Vinyl by the renowned
german label Nasoni Records with a scheduled release for March. In a perfect storm of stoner, hard rock
and doom with thundering riffs, rumbling solos and the deafening roar
of a windy rhythmic section as dark, gloomy and
powerful ripple currents fill the air with the high voltage
discharges evoking the evil spirits of Black Sabbath, Witch or Fuzz.
You can definitely
see the punk roots as the songs develop fast into a high pace of raw
and primitive yet highly addictive rock tunes, that is until the
Sabbath sleazy bridges and greasy breaks appear with the wicked fuzzy
saturated guitar unleashing sordid riffs and degenerated solos
accompanied by the demolishing sound of the drums, the obliterating
bass lines and stony corrupt vocals, coming all together to create
these amazing sections within the songs. An
astonishing debut by the three piece that looks more like an obscure
and lost demo straight from the golden 70´s with that old vintage
bluesy sound that alternates between fast and slow tempos... but
always keeping it heavy and groovy.
With 8 songs running
a little under 30 minutes you´ll find yourself dumbfounded
with this amazing record on loop all day long and I don´t blame
you... because it happened to me too.