WO FAT
The Black Code
Small Stone CD
Wo Fat, like label mates Lo Pan, are named after a fictional
Chinese villain, this time from Hawaii
5-0 rather than Big Trouble In Little
China. Hopefully there are more Small Stone bands out there named after
other such comical nemeses.
Having not
heard a stoner doom record for a while that’s really blown me away, I was
hugely thrilled by this album. This is super heavy groove-hungry doom with a
huge bottom end propelling five tracks of Sabbath-style riffing and massive wah-wah solos. The band change up the formula with ‘Hurt At Gone’, whose
avalanche-slide guitar adds a southern rock flourish to proceedings. The final two tracks are swathed in an
effects-driven psychedelic archipelago that arises from the bass-anchored
primordial soup.
A truly superb album from beginning to end
that also delights with its cover art, which echoes the 1981 movie Heavy Metal. Go pick it up.
Austin Matthews
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