As raucously riffed as ever, Roman trio Black Rainbows return in October with the new release Holy Moon. Billed as an EP, but comprising six songs and 38 minutes, Holy Moon will be the follow-up to 2012’s Supermothafuzzalicious! (review here), and judging from the clip below for “The Hunter,” it picks up the party right where the last album left off. I don’t know what it is about nuclear bomb test footage that goes so well with heavy rock, but damned if it doesn’t do the trick every time. Ditto car chases. You might also notice Black Rainbows riffing out in front of a few landmarks and ruins. Pretty sure I saw some of that stuff on my honeymoon.

The song itself is a tripped-out groover that — while not a cover of the Albert King song that Blue Cheer and so many others have taken on over the years — is full of switched-on Fu Manchu-style riffing and unbridled stoner rock bounce. Eminently accessible, you’ll get a feel for it quickly and hopefully come out of it glad you did.

Enjoy:

Black Rainbows, “The Hunter” official video

Heavy stuff going down…. BLACK RAINBOWS’ Holy Moon

Italian psychedelic rock band Black Rainbow’s new six-song 38-minute mini album sees the trio leave their earlier stoner rock motifs for a sound that keeps with the HEAVY but heads to the stars. ‘Holy Moon’ offers a deep brew of deep heavy space rock that follows the lineage of early Hawkwind through Loop and The Heads into White Hills, ‘Monsters Of The Highway’ recalls Monster Magnet and Thee Hypnotics with Gabriele Fiori excelling with his powered Detroit infused leads, ‘Chakra Temple’ slows things down over an Eastern drone worthy of both Simon House and The Black Sun Ensemble whilst ‘The Hunter’ adds a heavy Groundhogs boogie edge spiced up for 2013 in a similar vein to Ty Segall and Fuzz. ‘If I Was A Bird’ lessens the pace and adds a reverberating acoustic guitar as the centre piece to a tune that sounds a little like a distant Jack White vibing out to Jimmy Page. Ending with their big muff ridden ’90s sounding take on of MC5’s ‘Black To Comm’ Holy Moon shows how Black Rainbows have grown away from stoner metal into a band steeped in space rock, drones and that increasingly popular early ’90s reimagining of Detroit rock.

HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS Records
is proud to present
“THE HUNTER” new BLACK RAINBOWS video (Directed by Andrea Andrea ? Labate)
song taken from the upcoming Holy Moon
out on October 1 2013
buy the song – support the band!
http://blackrainbows.bandcamp.com/album/black-rainbows-holy-moon-ep

Tags: Black Rainbows, Black Rainbows Holy Moon, Heavy Psych Sounds, Holy Moon, Italy, Rome

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