Heavy, oppressive, but more than anything... strange. The stoner/doom of Mozergush leaves us puzzled both for the genre proposed and for the unconventional solutions; this results in the band’s first full-length after 2 demos that already showed promise. Originating from the cold Donetsk in Ukraine, the trio formed in 2007 immediately attracts attention with the macabre tribal cover and offers us a substantial and well-arranged album that over its one-hour duration drags us into a sonic vortex that in its 'softer' parts grips us with the unease it manages to convey.
"Voznakurenets" projects us into this unhealthy whirlwind of distorted sounds and incomprehensible words, it seems to have neither beginning nor end, and its 9 minutes (!) function more as an intro than anything else.
Hypnotic is the second track "Red Bottle With Pills" with Ivan's bass deformed by the slow cadence and the guitar that seems to disperse over the 15 minutes during which sinister noises emerge that plunge us into the nocturnal atmosphere of a forest.
Psychedelic episodes are not lacking such as the instrumental "Here There Be Tygers", a gloomy arpeggio that introduces the violent start of "Longliver (Man Who Will Never Die)", where the voice is torn to exhaustion. Ilya's singing (guitar/vocals) then becomes obsessive at the beginning of "Vulcanic Pigstars", while "Green Bottle With Pills" is a hinted caress of guitar and bass that lays atop the muffled chatter of some children. An interlude of incredibly annoying noise/electronic sounds then leads us to the final track, "Suicide Blues For Blue Suicidals", introduced by an industrial delirium of metallic sounds mixed with anxiety that drags on for 11 minutes without ever taking off and ending the album in the most trembling and uncertain way.
An excellent album for the Ukrainian band, which with its hallucinatory and at times hypnotic style reminds us in many passages of our own Ufomammut, and which certainly stands out from many other bands that play the same genre.
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