The debut album from Lucid Grave, Cosmic Mountain, arrived about two weeks ago through Electric Valley Records. The 45-minute full-length is led off by the massive, rolling lumber of the titular “Cosmic Mountain,” which is both opener and longest track (immediate points) at 11:21. This is important to note because “Old Spirit,” the cut for which the Kobenhavn five-piece have a new video out, is track two.

And it’s the contrast between those two first songs — that sense of going out really, really far, then snapping back to reality — is pretty important when it comes to the album as a whole, and not just because the two songs together comprise more than a third of the LP’s runtime. “Old Spirit” takes the grand, near-operatic declarations of vocalist Malene Pederson in the opener and completely recontextualizes them, surrounding with still-large tonality, but a feeling of motion that is sweeping and as much garage-metal as stoner-punk. One way or the other, you would call it uncompromising, and it is by no means the last turn that Cosmic Mountain has in store.

After you check out the video, you can stream the whole record near the bottom of this post courtesy of the Electric Valley Bandcamp page, and I’d encourage that if you’re at all intrigued by what unfolds in “Old Spirit.” It’s really just scratching the surface of what the entire release offers, but it’s doing so in an intriguing way that leads you down the path to the rest of Cosmic Mountain. See if you can follow the trail markers, maybe.

Enjoy:

Lucid Grave, “Old Spirit” official video

Copenhagen dark heavy psych/doom quintet Lucid Grave’s video for the song “Old Spirit,” taken from the recently released Cosmic Mountain LP. The video is made by DÓRI HALLDÓRSSON & AMANDA JENSEN.

“Old Spirit” is a heavy psych rock song with influence from the early ’80s punk. The song is about a fast spacy universe in-between two worlds. The song is inspired by the lead singer’s days in the high desert in California. The desert heat is hard on everything and everyone. And the wind still tells stories of the Native Americans, the legends of desert rock, and the military base in the unforgiving sun.

Cosmic Mountain is a journey through your favorite drugs of life, the highs and the lows, being chased through the desert and fighting a haze of demons.

The album Cosmic Mountain is available digitally and on four variants of vinyl (Test Press, Solid Yellow, Transparent Red Splatter Black Vinyl, Ultra LTD “Cosmic Edition”) via Electric Valley Records.

Stream Cosmic Mountain: https://smarturl.it/cosmicmountain

Lucid Grave, Cosmic Mountain (2022)

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Copenhagen-based psych-informed doom rockers Lucid Grave have signed to Electric Valley Records to release Cosmic Mountain, their debut album. The five-piece released their latest single “Surfer Bat” — which, rest assured, does feature waves of blood — in 2021 as a cassette through Virkelighedsfjern and noted at the time that they were working toward a follow-up to early 2020’s Goddess of Misery, which Cosmic Mountain will of course be.

Obviously their ability to get out and support that first record was stymied by some little thing that you probably heard about that completely uprooted humanity’s former concept of ‘normal’ — what was it called again? — and so it’s unknown just how much time they’ll spend on the road for the new one, but hell, maybe let’s let them get through actually putting the album out before we start with the booking questions. I’m curious how the playful goth in “Surfer Bat” might show up on Cosmic Mountain or if the record might go in a different direction entirely. One way to find out, which at this point is to wait.

From the socials or the internet or wherever:

Electric Valley Records is proud to announce the signing of the Heavy Psych Doom band…

Lucid Grave

Lucid Grave is a dark heavy psychedelic rock band with stoner-doomy tendencies from Copenhagen, Denmark. Their haunting inspiration emerges from the 70’s heavy rock from like Black Sabbath/Coven/Hawkwind, and to the 80’s punk scene like Black Flag/The Nuns. They been described as a tribute to the howling occult cinema from the 80’s. In 2021 they released a single called “Surfer Bat” – A bloody upbeat 70’s heavy Rock inspired song! They went back to the studio in early 2022, to record their first full length album ”Cosmic Mountain”. The album is a journey through your favorite drugs of life, the highs and the lows, being chased through the desert and fighting a haze of demons.

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Lucid Grave is:
Malene (Vocal)
Casper, Kriller (Guitar)
Jon (Drums)
Alex (Bass)

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Lucid Grave, “Surfer Bat”