If you have a second, go take a look at the merch page on Canadian wizard doom four-piece Strange Broue‘s Bandcamp site. It’s linked below and I don’t think it’ll take you long to notice the pattern I want you to see: Every piece of music, in every iteration, that the band has released is sold out. Gone. Granted we’re not talking about a massive, 100-album, Hawkwind-style discography, but still, it’s a considerable track record, and it means that if you check out the video below for “Ritualize” and maybe say to yourself, “Gee, I might like to pick up a copy of their forthcoming second LP, Seance, which is out Feb. 6 on Sunmask Records” (good on you for knowing the release details), you’ll want to get on that sooner rather than later. Because Seance, too, will likely disappear.

Little mystery why, what with the band’s cultish weedian leanings, VHS horror imagery and post-Oborn bouncing groove. “Ritualize” opens Seance, which runs 44 minutes and is very much a full-length album despite being billed as an EP. I’ve marked the clip as NSFW because it’s got all kinds of harvested footage of religious-themed violence, ’70s boobage, blood, crosses, fire — kind of what you’d expect to go with the song itself, but nothing you’d want your boss to walk by while you were watching. Of course, if we all just quit our jobs and spent our day worshiping the devil, it wouldn’t be an issue. Would it? No. Clearly not.

Until that happens, we’ll have to live vicariously through the Quebecois doomers and make do with that. Their debut, either self-titled or called The Mystifying Oracle, depending on whom you ask, came out in early 2016 also through Sunmask, so they’ve worked at a pretty good clip on the follow-up. We’ll see if they hold the pace and how their sound continues to develop as a result of that, but from listening to “Ritualize,” they come across as a group with a pretty clear idea of where they want to be, and again, if you go and look at that empty merch page (they do have a shirt still on sale as of this post), you’ll see it’s working for them.

Enjoy:

Strange Broue, “Ritualize” official video (NSFW)

Taken from the album Seance – The Satanic Sounds of Strange Broue out on February 6, 2017

Tapes and CDs available on February 6th, 2017 through
https://strangebroue.bandcamp.com/
http://sunmask.bigcartel.com/

Visual direction and editing by Hugo Bertacchi
Special thanks to Marc-Antoine Guérin for source footage and movie selection

Strange Broue are a psychedelic stoner/doom band from Quebec City, Canada. The spirits of Electric Wizard and Amicus frolic in diabolical rituals in the dark backwoods of Quebec.

The brouemaster and crew once again summon up the infernal spirits and the usual cast of Satanic panic suspects for their sophomore release Seance out this spring on Sunmask.

Limited release of 75 cassettes in VHS shell case with inserts.
Die-hard edition of 35 cassettes direct from the band.

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Tags: Canada, Quebec, Seance, Strange Broue, Strange Broue Seance, Sunmask Records

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