i am in a metal state of mind recently. i made my way into the doom genre and am therefore discovering a lot of new stuff. just as happened here. iron walrus is a german band and i stumbled upn them when checking the redfield records online store. the cover art of their second record, which will appear in the next post, was pretty cool and as i read 'doom metal' in the description i ventured over to the tube.
checking some tunes there, my decision was made. i wanted a copy. as redfield also had their debut record still in stock, i didn't do any monkey buisness and added it to the order. musically 'insidious black sea' is a real solid debut record. chunky riffs, beefy drums and rough vocals and the outcome is a great doom record with a distinct stoner edge. reminds me a bit of high on fire.
check out the songs 'sleep' and above all 'erdbeermund'. it's an instrumental song played over a six minute long klaus kinski sample. klaus kinski was a controversial but successful german actor in the seventies and eighties of the last century. he was known for his uncontrollable temper but also for his acting genius. this sample is a recorded reciting of a villion poem by paul zech. you can almost feel the raging energy floating through kinski here.
the album was released last year and pressed to vinyl in a crystal blue with black smoke edition. someone really spent some thoughts here matching the vinyl colour perfectly to the album title 'insidious black sea'. looks real nice held against the light. 503 copies made. comes with a numbered sleeve, mine is #227. copies still available. redfield records. 2014.
