BLACK RAINBOWS レコード& CD

Review: Black Rainbows are the quintessential stoner band - they might hail from Italy, but they sound every inch like they hailed from the same arid desertscape as Kyuss and Fu Manchu. Superskull is their eighth studio album, and they sound tighter than ever before shelling down on tracks like 'Superhero Dopeproof'. The riffs are mountainous and the vocals beamed in from space, but above all else the song hit with urgency. Just listen to 'Children of Fire And Sacrifices' and you'll be thinking Deep Purple just came back to life bolstered with the heaviness of the modern age. If you love proper no-nonsense stoner rock you're going to love this record, and just check that artwork!

Review: Black Rainbows are back with twelve fresh, brand new tunes in the form of Superskull. The new album sounds huge, with of a great deal of attention paid to guitars in the recording, with the band having finally struck the perfect balance and tone for their mega-heavy superstoner sound. The likes of 'Superhero Dopeprof' and 'Cosmic Ride Of The Crystal Skull' deliver skittery, start-stoppy, guitar-led shouts into a stoners' abyss; it's as if each track were accompanying us on a flying-carpet-ride into ever-further reaches of a divinely-designed THC jungle. There's even a acoustic space instrumental and a psychedelic suite on there, providing perfect juxtapositions for what can only be described as the band's most multifaceted album so far.