Lesbian
Stratospheria Cubensis

In an era where to avoid being instantly sucked into the most bloodsucking P2P, the alternative is either insubstantial common usage terms promptly recontextualized (The Music, Red, Girls) or indecipherable acronyms full of obscure, esoteric symbols and other various crap (like kids struck by Norwegian black metal, the raw, fierce, woman-hating kind, with albums recorded in basements with black and white covers and lyrics in their native language that speak of pagan rituals, forests, Nietzsche, and Satan), the Lesbian choose a third way: an ultra-common moniker (especially in certain voyeuristic internet environments) and also a bit ultrastupid ''...because the nice ones, like Dream Theater or Excrementory Grindfuckers, were already taken''.

There are four of them, speaking with a sensual and mystical vein about hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana, they have recorded for Holy Mountain (which in itself is a good guarantee of mental distortion) and together they play a particular mix of sludge, old-school stoner/doom, and progressive metal, muddy and acidic yet chronometric and delirious. Their first album dates back to 2007: ''Power Hor'', a little jewel of hysterical and deviant psychedelia that, with a couple of flares for support (or a mallow tea depending on your taste), is its ideal death. Then an EP, a split with Ocean and, at the end of 2010, this full-length. ''Full'' in the true sense of the word; the numbers speak for themselves: 5 tracks, 71 minutes long.

''Stratospheria Cubensis'', with its maniacally intellectual title, the swampy production of Randall Dunn (Earth, Boris, Wolves In The Throne Room, among others) and its very intricate artwork by Seldon Hunt, which some of you may already know from collaborations with Neurosis, Isis, and Melvins (so he can't be 100% sane...), is exaggerated, overwhelming, boundless, indescribable, radically different from itself and everything, where mad devastation and surreal melodies merge into a single, uncontrolled eruption (''Stropharia Cubensis''), creating ever-smaller and chaotic sonic microworlds (''Poverty And War Forever''), with the longest track placed at the end as if to sum up a musical sense and a modus operandi rarely encountered. ''Black Stygian'' is the final tangle: twenty-two minutes of psych-doom-sludge-prog delirium that severely tests the listener's concentration due to its high rhythms and incalculable twists on which the piece's spiral travels. Stuff for a throbbing headache. 

If you need a soundtrack to get rid of the last drunk guests who don't want to leave your house at 3 in the morning, the Lesbian might be what you need; then, however, it's a recommendation, make sure no one is left outside curious to know who this American crazy bunch was on Youporn.

Plethoric and traumatizing.