OBELYSKKH: Germany’s Most Pungent Doom Act Prepares Third LP For Release

German doom kingpins OBELYSKKH’s debut LP, Mount Nysa, set the hooks into the stoner/doom underworld’s jaws, and their 2012 follow-up, White Lightnin’, hoisted them a notch above countless contemporaries with a whole new level of visibility and even more potent delivery of their plodding, explorative, psychedelic sludge/doom tactics. Now, less than a year after the release of White Lightnin’, OBELYSKKH is anxious to pummel the population with the quartet’s most prophetic audio destruction to date.

Since 2008, OBELYSKKH has held a solid reputation within their respective scene, each album delivering a more intense and expanded take on their visionary practices. People gave them all kinds of shit for taking like three years to release a record, but as soon as Mount Nysa was born the praise poured in. The accolades magnified on last year’s White Lightnin’, a crushing, sludge-strewn masterpiece produced by Billy Anderson saw the band crawling out of the underground and gaining somewhat more aboveground visibility.

Now less than a year later, the newest auditory voyage OBELYSKKH has metaphysically embarked on comes to fruition in the form of third LP, Hymn To Pan. While captured in sessions directly subsequent to the recording of White Lightnin’, the beautifully-crafted and incredibly potent music on Hymn To Pan showcases this modest yet deadest quartet on an entirely new musical plateau. Audibly texturizing organic expanses of doom/sludge metal in an more psychedelic fashion than before, this southern German outfit here outlays their most advanced material to date, with six enormous tracks which test the boundaries of modern media at a massive one hour and eight minutes of otherworldly, beautifully, destructive contemporary doom metal rapture. Hymn To Pan was recorded by the band and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Nails, High On Fire, Integrity, etc.).

Hymn To Pan will see release in Germany on August 30th, September 2nd across the rest of Europe, and on September 24th in North America; the album is to be released on CD, digital and 2xLP containing three recorded sides; side D is a blank mirror and gives a great tool to adjust your vinyl player’s antiskating properly. Stay tuned for further updates on it all.

Hymn To Pan Track Listing:

1. Hymn To Pan

2. The Ravens

3. The Man Within

4. Heavens Architrave

5. Horse

6. Revelation: The Will To Nothingness

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OBELYSKKH: Full Album From German Slugesters Streaming At Stereokiller

As White Lightnin’, the second full-length from German quartet OBELYSKKH, nears release on Exile On Mainstream next week, today Stereokiller is hosting an exclusive stream of the entire album.

White Lightnin’ is a roaring tour de force of catchy, flowing sludge/doom with just the right amount of atmospheric properties to counter its skull-shattering low-end assault, drawing from pure filth through psychedelic soundscapes into postrock and back. The output of OBELYSKKH is crushing but it also breathes some kind of repetitive mantra-like ambition, which clears the air here and there and thus declines total negativity.

Go forth and rock the hell out to White Lightnin’ and catch up on more OBELYSKKH at Stereokiller RIGHT HERE.

Amidst tours and live performances throughout Germany and abroad since their 2008 inception, White Lightnin’ follows-up OBELYSKKH’s long-time-comin’ debut Mount Nysa, which was released in 2011 via now defunct German label Droehnhaus, nearly four years after the band’s formation. Following the immediately incredible response from the doom/sludge scene it received, the band decided  against a massive gap until the next album, and over the turn of the year into 2011 set up camp with Billy Anderson (Sleep, Neurosis, Mr. Bungle, Eyehategod, High On Fire, Melvins, etc.) to capture, mix and master their new work.

White Lightnin’ will see North American release on CD, LP and digital download via Exile On Mainstream this Tuesday, October 16th.

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