Brazilian Doom Metal band Void Tripper release their first full-length album, Dopefiend.

In the first five years the band has released a couple of singles, a demo, an EP, and a full-length live album, all setting the stage for Dopefiend, their first studio long-player. The music is straight-up stoner doom with heavy and crushing riffs to go along with the narrative delirium. According to the Metal Archives, the line-up is Gabriel Mota (drums), Mário Fonteles (guitar and vocals), Anastácio Júnior (guitar and vocals), and Jonatas Monte (bass).

There are five tracks on the album, four of which run over seven minutes long. The influence of Black Sabbath runs deep and rich in this earth-rattling music. “Devil’s Reject” opens the set with splashy percussion, weighty bass, and a rolling guitar riff. The vocals are gruff enough to push the dark ideas and clear enough to be understandable. The lead break toward the end of the song is a howling wolf filled with warning and sorrow. An auspicious beginning.

“Burning Woods” conveys surety in its confident deployment. The music is a dark warming syrup too thick to escape. Once you are captured the guitars rage around you. “Hollow” leads with a distorted audio capture then veers off at a harrowing pace on a rollicking, sinister riff. By the end the music slows to a grinding stone-on-stone eminence.

“Satan and Drugs” is the shortest piece and it shakes you up with its warbling threats, setting the stage for the closer, “Comatose.” A massively distorted bass line joins the clipping drums to usher in an intoxicatingly inviting guitar and insinuating vocal enticement. The second half of the song slows to a tense almost funeral doom level over which a mystical guitar lead hypnotizes you to an inevitable and thoroughly satisfying end. The album is an excellent set of doom that beguiles you from start to finish. Recommended.

Dopefiend is out on Friday, June 11^th, and you can find it at the Bandcamp link below.

Links.

Bandcamp, https://voidtripperdoom.bandcamp.com/album/dopefiend

Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/voidtripperband/