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Brain Pyramid Premiere “Electric Spell” from New LP Magnetosphere

Posted in audiObelisk on September 28th, 2015 by JJ Koczan

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Relocated from Brittany in France to Barcelona, Spain, heavy rock trio Brain Pyramid have made their second long-player, Magnetosphere, available to preorder from Vincebus Eruptum Recordings. A vinyl/download available either on black or green wax, it’s their follow-up to 2014’s Chasma Hideout (stream here; review here) as well as a split with French act Missingmile and finds guitarist Gaston Lainé and drummer Baptiste Gautier-Lorenzo joined by new bassist Paul Arends. One doubts it’s completely attributable to the lineup change, but the difference between the first album and the sophomore outing is palpable, Brain Pyramid departing from structured songwriting in favor of instrumental heavy psych sprawl, Magnetosphere made up of just three tracks totaling 43 minutes.

To make matters even more spaced out, 25 of those 43 minutes are dedicated to the title-track, which serves as the entirety of side A. On side B, LainéGautier-Lorenzo and Arends offer brain pyramid magnetosphereup two more jams, “Solar Wind” and the closing “Electric Spell,” each running the better portion of nine minutes. All told, Brain Pyramid retain the natural tones and stoner grooves of their debut but branch way out into improv psychedelics, and while it may be a one-off — that is, they’ll get back to verses and choruses sooner or later; unless they don’t — if the three-piece were looking to demonstrate their newfound chemistry, they do so across these songs in the rawest form possible. Their weighted jams swell in volume and recede over the solid foundation of Gautier-Lorenzo‘s drumming, and Lainé runs through extended solos that only make the proceedings more molten as they go, each cut operating with the same live-style warmth that, whether or not Brain Pyramid decide to return from the lysergic region of subspace they’re inhabiting here will serve them well as a stylistic groundwork from which to build.

As a way of heralding Magnetosphere‘s arrival, you can stream “Electric Spell” on the player below. Something of an outlier for not being completely improvised, it nonetheless represents the general methodology well. Album info and preorder links follow. Please enjoy:

Brain Pyramid was formed in November 2012, in Rennes (Brittany—France). This is the initiative of the actual lead guitarist Gaston Lainé and the drummer Baptiste Gautier-Lorenzo.

Influenced by the sweet old Rock n Roll (Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Sabbath, Motörhead, Blue Cheer, etc.) but also by stoner rock and actual psychedelic scene (Kyuss, Sleep, Fu Manchu, Earthless, Orange Goblin, etc.) they decided to create a band to play like these masters. After the release of their first EP «Magic Carpet Ride», the former bassman left his place to Ronan Grall from the doom band Huata. The band recorded it’s first LP called «Chasma Hideout» and release it on Acid Cosmonaut Records. After the 2014 European tour, the band proceed to another line-up change, to welcome a new bass player: Paul Arends. They made a Split with the french stoner band Missingmile, and they recorded an other LP in 2015, based on free jams, called Magnetosphere. They are now beginning a new era in the city of Barcelona.

Brain Pyramid is a Heavy Bluesy Stoner Psychedelic Rock And Roll band. They play loud enough to make you feel like blown by a lsd dose. They are actually searching for lots of gigs to expend their experience and grow up to the sun.

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