First post, for the part that touches me, of 2022 of ‘normal’ reviews, yes, as is usual at the beginning of the year and until material from the current course arrives, we will be covering albums that unfortunately were pending from the past 2021 and that I don’t want to leave in the inkwell, albums that necessarily have to be done justice by making them visible here.
Do you want to feel the ‘presence’ of the SNAKE?… Well, right here you have it!!!…
It was impossible for me to cover the second album by the Villarreal band before the show I enjoyed at the end of December in the same town with the Negracalavera… but I already had a good listen! The ‘new skin’ of those from La Plana happens to be a definitive declaration of intent, to experiment with new sounds flirting not only with Vintage Rock, but also with Stoner, Doom, Heavy Rock… without losing a single bit. apex of his ‘roll’ touch and his Swedish influence. The band has a renewed formation in which the change to the vocals of Rubén Pesudo, Juan Molés (guitar), Iván Dario (bass), Fran Villanúa (drums) and Mr. Lord Culebra, I mean, Mario de Moya to the lead guitar. The quintet left a very good taste in my mouth live, having listened, as I was saying, to the new compositions, and that is because Lost In The Poisoned Sea (2021) sells itself, in the first section you will find such powerful and electrified songs to the Maxxx like the initial “Jim Jones” and the duet “Don’t Think Twice” clearly ‘a la Swedish’ and the dark garage rock of “Walpurgis Night”. But the album is also nourished by sounds matured and macerated in the barrel, sounding much more mature and with greater depth and there are songs like “Take Control”, “Living Too Fast” or “Full Of Lies” with that delicious seventies classicism. They also try the ascending proto-Doom Occult Rock of “I Don’t Want To Be Alone”, they even dare to experiment with Stoner Rock and Doom/Prog in “Lost In The Poisoned Sea” and “There Is Nothing Beyond” respectively, especially this last one that is a true dark and certainly gloomy trip to that decade in which Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult and Pentagram began to open the doors of Averno…
How good it is to witness the enormous evolution of the new CULEBRA…
–
