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The Americans Dopethrone reach their sixth album in 2024, marking 15 years of activity since their first discographic outcry "Demonsmoke" in 2009, with this new full-length titled "Broke Sabbath" consisting of 7 tracks for a total duration of 39 minutes. Their style is Sludge Metal with strong blues and Stoner characteristics.
The opening track "Life Kills You" is a well-structured anthemic piece with its punk-blues urgency and the screaming vocals are acidic and corrosive yet always maintain a certain degree of melody. "Truckstop Warlock" is a dark doom metal piece but always retains that punk urgency made of riffs on the brink of the most captivating stoner and feels like a train rushing without a conductor. Punk-blues-sludge of fine quality is also found in the following "A.B.A.C." with a spoken intro and the entrance of a powerful sabbath-like riff, a 7-minute doom piece where the vocals blend well with the rhythm section doing their dirty work; it's like venturing into the quagmire of dark metal but never too extreme, everything has a catchy and melodic twist that keeps the songs lingering in your mind. At the end of the track, there's also a nice wah-wah solo, stunning and acidic, while the rhythm section advances frenetically and precisely to the abrasive finale.
"Shlaghammer" features a blues-stoner dynamic riff with the singer's harsh and sour vocals, until halfway through when the tempo slows down allowing for another clear sabbath-style solo; the piece closes with a heavily distorted bass loop preluding an assaulting and murky doom metal. "Rock Slock" is like listening to Motorhead on acid, 8 lysergic minutes at a fast pace with solos and guitar riffs that turn this piece into a hyper-distorted ride. "Uniworse" and "Sultans Of Sin" maintain those breakneck tempos that make stoner and sludge metal their heralds with that blues feeling making you truly love the entire album, featuring Iommi-style solos appearing throughout the track and the screaming voice adding gloom and darkness to the well-constructed pieces, offering fragments of pure fun and goofing around in this "Broke Sabbath".
Truly a good work from all perspectives, a beautifully hallucinated and drugged return from Dopethrone that will surely win new followers.
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