Doom grooves and stoner vibes: You can’t beat ’em, so don’t even try. Hailing from the post-industrial wasteland known as Cleveland, Ohio, the four-piece Threefold Law (you’d expect a trio, but no dice) combine what’s best about the genre of stone with a love of classic doom acts like Trouble and Cathedral. On their MySpace, you can hear the song “The Burning Time,” which tops out at over eight minutes and was included on Stoner Rock Ohio‘s Blowin’ Smoke compilation.

“The Burning Time” is aptly named just about any way you want to take it. Threefold Law go where the riffs take them, making the most of young Pepper Keenan-style vocals and bass lines I’d love to hear in better-than-MySpace quality. The track has plenty of space to develop, and if anything, sounds like it could have been even longer, since it fades away in the middle of a jam. Playing till the tape runs out? Maybe. Threefold Law seem to have both ends covered — the rocking and the rolling — so it wouldn’t surprise me to hear them push a groove into temporal overdrive.

They aren’t exactly what you’d call “experimental” when it comes to originality, but Threefold Law do well enough to take what’s already established and make it their own. Their only release to date, a 2009 EP called Killer of the Sultan seems to be sold out (I can’t find it on their website), but maybe we’ll get lucky and hear more from these dudes soon. For now, eight minutes of “The Burning Time” will have to do.

Tags: Cleveland, Ohio, Threefold Law, Unsigned bands

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