The Necromancers Premiere “Black Marble House” Video; Servants of the Salem Girl Due Aug. 18 on Ripple Music
French four-piece The Necromancers have set an Aug. 18 release for their debut album, Servants of the Salem Girl, via respected purveyor Ripple Music, and even if it’s about witches, they manage to avoid many of the trappings of modern cult rock. To wit, they sound like neither the garage doom of Uncle Acid nor the retrofied boogie of Graveyard — and when it comes to what we’ve come to associate with cult rock, those are two considerable monoliths to avoid (even though Graveyard are just about in no way a cult rock band). The track “Black Marble House,” for which you can see a new video premiering below, is my first exposure to the Poitiers-based outfit, and it finds their sound modern, heavy, fuzzy and deceptively straightforward given their purported lyrical thematic.
One might be tempted to call that incongruity were it not for the obvious core of songwriting on display beneath the crisp production of “Black Marble House,” which allows The Necromancers to immediately take the track where they please, adding a gruff edge of aggression to the hook as they shove through the five-plus minutes over which they tell this portion of a story that, presumably, takes place over the course of the album as a whole. August is a ways off, and I haven’t heard the entirety of Servants of the Salem Girl as yet — and that’s not me being coy; I actually haven’t heard it — but as an introduction to what The Necromancers might proffer at least in part sonically throughout, “Black Marble House” piques interest and at very least gives those who’d take it on a chorus to have stuck in their head until more info and/or audio arrives.
The band offered some insight on the song and how it plays into the full record, which you’ll find under the player here along with the credits and other whatnot.
Please enjoy:
The Necromancers, “Black Marble House” official video
The Necromancers on “Black Marble House”:
“‘Black Marble House’ is the first song we recorded as a demo, and when we shot the video (which tells a witch hunt that goes wrong for the Witchfinder), we mostly wanted to release something that could illustrate the whole album we were working on, Servants of the Salem Girl. The ‘Salem Girl’ is a presence who haunts all our songs, taking different names, symbolising different things, but always floating around. It was important to us to have something not just based on the lyrics of ‘Black Marble House.'”
Taken from THE NECROMANCERS’ debut album ‘Servants Of The Salem Girl” out on Ripple Music on August 18th.’
Directed and edited by Tom Cornière-David.
Filmed by Pauline Foeillet.
Starring : Marie Besiat, Antoine Alonso, Hugo Pravia, Andolin Vermillet & The Necromancers.
The Necromancers are:
Rob – Lead Guitar
Tom – Lead Vocals & Guitar
Simon – Bass Guitar
Ben – Drums
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