Acid Witch
Stoned

LA RECENSIONE

Acid Witch....... Acid Witch...... and who the heck are these guys? Many of you might be wondering this while reading this review.

Acid Witch is primarily a duo from Michigan that offers a sound style based on a mix of Death Metal, Doom Metal, Stoner, a lot of Crust, splashes of NWOBHM and Psychedelia (grimy, but still psychedelia). Grimy, along with raw and dirty, are the right adjectives to describe the music of these lunatics.

The guys debuted in 2008 with "Witchtanic Hellucinations," a powerful and raw album, and then returned in 2011 with "Stoned." From the titles of these two albums alone, you can understand what kind of whackos we're dealing with. But let's proceed with describing what "Stoned" is... It's as if Satan had fun all Halloween night snatching candy from children but ended up vomiting from eating too much. The groan you hear is Shagrat's (singer) voice, while the cascade of bile and gastric juice are the infernal guitar riffs and the drums pounding incessantly like a steamroller. Muzzy, enveloping, and "stoning" music (as per the title).

"Stoned" is rich in references to Horror, Black Magic, Witchcraft, and Drugs, as we can see from the first track: "Satanic Faith," a clear homage to Goblin and Argento's films, followed by "Witchfynder Finder": dissonant and psychedelic just right. Next is "Trick Or Treat," Doom-Death, slow and abrasive, and it continues with "Thundering Hooves," alternating and repetitive to the point of nervous exhaustion. After the instrumental "Whispers In The Dark," we have the quartet: "Live Forever," "If Hell Exist," "Stoned To The Grave," and "Sabbath Of The Undead," which exalt the 70-80s metal by mixing it with an abyss of Stoner-Doom-Death and creating a unique, putrid, and decomposed sound entity.

The album overall sounds good, with a compact sound, alternating moments of infinite brutality with almost entirely humorous ones; just take, for example, the title "Metal Movie Marijuana Massacre Meltdown." It is certainly not a revolutionary album, it doesn't want to impose itself as such and doesn't seek pretensions to do so, but in the end, the goal is to entertain you with about an hour of pure slack.