Through garages covered in dust and cobwebs till nocturnal clubs eager to get starving crowds, hungry for noise, hungry to hear loud rock to meet their basic needs of acquiring culture or simply shake their heads with a great sound for the sake of enjoying the simplest pleasures in life HeavyHardMetalmania.net gives you the Boston-based rock band ICHABOD with their new psychedelic sludge bomb forthcoming release “Dreamscapes From Dead Space”.
Created in 1998 the band name ICHABOD was born from a text in the bible from the books of Samuel. ICHABOD was the name of a child that born on the day that the Ark was taken into philistine captivity. His mother went into labor due to the shock of hearing that her husband had died and the Ark had been captured and she died shortly after giving birth and named her son. The name ICHABOD refers to the inglorious birth of the child that was born on a bloody day, with no father, no mother and no God, because even the glory has departed from that place.
Where is the glory in ICHABOD? Definitively in its powerful raging music with more than a decade that made the inglorious glorious. After more than ten years with Ken MacKay (vocals), Greg Delaria (bass), Dave Iverson (guitar) and Phil MacKay (drums) in the psychedelic/sludge/doom/ metal scene and hoping to continue their musical journey and personal ascents they focused their efforts to build a new sound and so they entered a path of experiment with new tunings, sounds, symbolism, and structures in the songwriting. With changes not always come good things in the first place and due to the new directions and visions of the band Ken MacKay followed a different path and the other members remained, the common in many bands that we are used to see.
Fortunately they didn´t want to stop the music killing machine they constructed and with a new singer John Fadden and with Jason Adam giving more consistency assuming the role of rhythm guitarist they finally assumed the new change and became even stronger than before with a lot deeper music and style.
“Dreamscapes From Dead Space” is till the date their most complete, ravishing, innovator work with an extensive spectrum of different styles and sounds. This is not the common hard rock/ sludge music, this is a progressive work very experimental with metal, sludge, psychedelic, rock , doom, jazzy elements all mixed in a exotic/ritual type of atmosphere creating a space of dreamscapes with a heavy but melodic musical orchestra. Their music is a conglomeration of phrases slowly progressing into a unique form of abstract music but precise with distortion lines and clean lines, with heavy metal riffs changing to a more hard rock riff type of playing, with a hardcore sound and slow tempo doom style creating that warming and nasty sludge and always with that old school psych vibe from the 70´s/80´s present that reaches your hears and melts your brain and takes to the mental trip of colorful swirl and ugly monsters from the dead space and that’s what I feel when I trip into this Dreamscape sound.
ICHABOD´s fifth full-length release “Dreamscapes from Dead Space” is refreshing and extending with lots to offer, almost fifty minutes of pleasure and headbanging, this is a massive psychedelic sludge bomb ready to explode October 30th through Rootsucker Records, don’t miss this blast!
ICHABOD´s fifth full-length release “Dreamscapes from Dead Space” is refreshing and extending with lots to offer, almost fifty minutes of pleasure and headbanging, this is a massive psychedelic sludge bomb ready to explode October 30th through Rootsucker Records, don’t miss this blast!
By Pedro Ribeiro: With love for beer... sorry, music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years, then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. visit our reviews page.
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Dreamscapes From Dead Space Track Listing:
1. Huckleberry
2. Looking Glass
3. Baba Yaga
4. Epiphany
5. Hollow God
6. All Your Love
7. 108
8. Return of the Hag
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