Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum CD (Neurot)
24 minute opus ‘ESO’ opens up this two track psychedelic doom trip and straight away you can feel yourself being sucked into the gloomy ethereal blackness which builds and builds until reaching a hypnotic, droning climax. ‘EXO’ is a more unsettling, sinister piece of blackened drone dominated by Neurosis style tribal drum beats and desperate vocals, before almost reprising the coda from ‘ESO’. For fans of Neurosis, Amenra, Ufomammut etc. Ian Pickens