THEY WATCH US FROM THE MOON

JM

Cosmic Chronicles: Act 1, The Ascension NEW HEAVY SOUNDS Space rock and doom metal collide to create a sonic supernova. In keeping with heavy psych antecedents such as England’s Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and New Jersey’s Ruby The Hatchet among others, Kansas’ They Watch Us From The Moon have cracked the formula that blends distortion, volume and power with harmonious, hazy melodicism. Not that this suggests They Watch Us From The Moon lack their own identity – far from it. Across five tracks of epic length (nothing here clocks below the six-minute mark) the sextet have developed a heaviness in sound that’s wholly their own. The layered guitars of plank-spankers The General Shane Thirteen and R Benjamin Black (yes, those are their names) create a fearsome backdrop on On…

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