Mad God Sign to Mongrel Records
Dirty and psychedelic in kind, Johannesburg’s Mad God have been picked up to release their next album through South Africa’s leading heavy purveyor, Mongrel Records. Their 2018 sophomore outing, Grotesque and Inexorable (review here), is still their latest release, but they’re reportedly working toward new stuff, and hey, you can’t rush a good rolling riff. The band at that point featured Evert Snyman (solo work, Ruff Majik, producer of many, etc.) on bass, and they’ve since brought on board Danny Helsing to fill that role, so one looks forward to hearing the inevitable change in their dynamic and how it might affect the sheer crunch of their riffing.
One expects they will remain quite, quite heavy, and that’s just fine, Grotesque and Inexorable feeling as much like a mission statement as a self-assessment.
From the PR wire:
MAD GOD – Mongrel Records
Mad God is a 3 piece doom metal band from Johannesburg, South Africa and take influences from bands such as Electric Wizard, Church of Misery, OM, Sleep, Sons of Otis, The Sword and Black Sabbath. Mad God combine traditional, epic, sludge and stoner doom and play a mix of crushingly slow riffs and psychedelic soundscapes layered with reverb drenched vocals and lyrics touching on horror, madness, drug abuse and interdimensional beings. Our music goes beyond the traditional metal tropes of blast beats and guttural vocals and experiments with slow and atmospheric textures that allows our essence to extend between worlds. Mad God’s show is more than just a live performance but an aural and physical experience that we share with our audience.
Mad God – Unholy Rituals – https://orcd.co/unholyrituals
Mad God – Tales of a Sightless City – https://orcd.co/talesofasightlesscity
Mad God – Grotesque and Inexorable – https://orcd.co/grotesqueandinexorable
Mad God are super excited to be working with Mongrel records going forward. We have been sitting on scraps of riffs as well as some almost finished tracks for a while now so this is the kick we needed to get on with it. We are extremely thankful for this opportunity to work with MR and can’t wait to deliver some new music in the not too distant future. – Tim Harbour, guitars/vocals.
I have been a huge fan of Mad God for a couple years now. There previous albums are on constant rotation in the office. We’ve been chatting for a long time about them joining Mongrel. Everything finally fell into place and we couldn’t be happier. – Warren Gibson, label manager
MAD GOD are:
Danny Helsing – Bass
Tim Harbour – Vocals and Guitar
Pat Stephansen – Drums
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