“Don’t try to fight it,” the band’s motto implores, “Salem’s
Pot has come to destroy your mind.” It’s the same kind of winking tease
employed by low budget horror films of the 70s-80s that essentially dared
audiences to experience what they knew they wanted, but couldn’t possibly
expect.
Likewise, the new album by mysterious Swedish quintet
Salem’s Pot delivers truly gritty and captivating heavy rock in high contrast
technicolor: a sonic equivalent of The Last House On The Left, El Topo and
Blood Feast. Similar to the way such films made up for their lack of flashy,
expensive effects with dim lighting and implied violence, a hallucinogenic
sense of true evil lurks in the dark corners
of Salem’s Pot’s sound. Lest we
forget, the band’s name itself is a pun on Stephen King’s stark, modernized
vampire masterpiece.
Where previous Salem’s Pot releases honed doom riffs to
perfection, Pronounce This! sees the band expanding its horizons to the far
corners of imagination. It’s a hazy fever dream of dark, thrilling excess. It’s
equal parts of The Cramps’ Psychedelic Jungle, Pentagram’s Relentless, Roky
Erickson’s The Evil One and The Stooges Raw Power, as much heirs to Deep Purple
as Dead Moon… metal, garage punk, acid rock and a belladonna trip gone wrong.
It’s not heavy metal, this is a mutant monster that cannot be tamed.
And, perhaps as a continuation of the band’s
fascination with sinful lore, Salem’s Pot never identifies its band members
individually — they’re all completely anonymous without so much as a stagename.
One of the biggest upgrades since the band’s 2014 RidingEasy album …Lurar ut
dig pa prarien is the addition of second guitar, with the previous drummer
giving up the throne for the strap and a new unnamed mystery man pounding the
kit. Now, the band is freed to expand beyond the riff and get truly freaky. And
with each new release, the vocals are way more snarling punk than the doom
histrionics of their peers.
Download Album: https://salemspot.bandcamp.com/album/pronounce-this
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