Brazilian trio Mordor Truckers last hailed with the 2020 single “Red Sands” (review here) from what at the time was a herald of a debut studio EP to come. Up to that point and still to-date, the band’s most substantial offering was/is 2019’s Ao Vivo – Pequeno Anfiteatro, and indeed both cuts on the new two-songer Nowhere featured there as well: “Ammit” and “Mindless.”

That release — which even has the photo above for its cover, making that also at least four years old; a different version was used in the post linked above, so they’ve definitely gotten some mileage out of it — was much rawer in sound, but had a personality of its own in bootleg fashion. I doubt Mordor Truckers intended at the time that it would become the epicenter of everything else they’d do for nearly the next half-decade, but at least it doesn’t suck. It’s got that going for it.

Nowhere picks up more or less where “Red Sands” left off, with a north-of-six-and-a-half-minute run of psychedelia-informed heavy rock, loose-feeling in its construction as “Mindless” works into and through its jammy midsection, but never in any real danger of losing its footing with the wall o’ fuzz looming just ahead. As with “Ammit,” guitarist/vocalist Manuel Ceballos, bassist Patrick Jordy and drummer/backing vocalist Brendan Bazzi keep a mind toward atmosphere, and as well as sheer nod, though “Ammit” grows more active and noisier from its quiet, meditative beginning.

Either way you go, you don’t lose. It’s a short release, obviously, but its two songs are still more than you’d likely cram on a 7″ and they want three bucks for them. Doesn’t seem like too huge an ask, though one hopes that at some point soon they dig into making a debut full-length as well, even if that’s just a compilation of the various tracks they’ve put out thus far with another song or two included. We’ll see I guess. Vibe is right on in the meantime, though, and I enjoy specifically how cult or purposefully-vague sounding this isn’t.

From the PR wire:

Mordor Truckers – Nowhere EP

After a certain time without new releases, the stoner rock/stoner doom trio “Mordor Truckers” appears now with a new and also well-known material in the newest and most recent EP titled as “Nowhere”.

The release is the result of a totally independent production by the band and contains two songs previously released only in a live version, now recorded and mixed by Júlio Cesar at “Wecando Music” studio in Joinville – Brazil.

The songs are “Mindless” and “Ammit” and are available on several major music streaming platforms, youtube and bandcamp.

Tracklisting:
1. Ammit 07:05
2. Mindless 06:46

Mordor Truckers is:
Patrick Jordy: Bass
Manuel Ceballos: Guitar/Vocals
Brendan Bazzi: Drums/Backing Vocals

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Mordor Truckers, Nowhere (2023)

Brazilian three-piece Mordor Truckers — who, yes, win at band names — are getting ready to release their first studio EP sometime in the near future, following up on their initial 2018 single “Lord of the Desert” and the 2019 live offering Ao Vivo – Pequeno Anfiteatro. “Red Sands” featured on that live album, along with a slew of other vibe-heavy mostly-instrumentals crossing the line between atmospheric spaciousness, jamming and heavier-fuzzed riffs, capturing the spirit of a nascent Sungrazer with a warmth of bottom-end tone that came through the proceedings even in the rawer, captured-outside form.

To listen to “Lord of the Desert” from that release — you can stream it at the bottom of the post here for reference; it’s also name-your-price — you not only get a taste of guitarist Manuel Ceballos‘ vocal approach, but the copious groove that coincides led by his own thickened fuzz and push forth by the drums of Brendan Bazzi and the bass of Patrick Jordy.

In comparison, “Red Sands” balances out as a mellower affair, but the dynamic is similar. It begins with a spacious, mellow establishment of the central progression and a well timed full kick into the ensuing distortion and crash, the roll underway with little ceremony and all the easier to follow for that. The converted will find little to argue with as the guitars drop out and the bass makes a bed for a sample warning against a return to Mars, and when the riff resurfaces, it opens to an airy lead that’s a preface for the drifting but still tense movement that soon enough plays back and forth with crushing weight as the song rolls through its final stage.

One is left to wonder how the rest of the EP might play out and how the band — who recorded in 2019 — might have continued to grow in the time since, but these are concerns for after emerging from the other side of “Red Sands” itself, which portends the yet-untitled release as one for which one might keep an eye/ear out in the “coming soon” to come.

Dig it:

Mordor Truckers, “Red Sands” official track premiere

The Brazilian Psychedelic/Stoner Rock/Space Rock three-headed act Mordor Truckers is ready to release their first new single “Red Sands” which is expected to be featured in the band’s first EP (hopefully in this year). “Red Sands” is a instrumental heavy psychedelic and spacey journey through the cosmos inspired by the sonority of bands like Spaceslug and Vinnum Sabbathi. Crushing riffs, a intense atmosphere and beautiful heavy tones are part of this first trip of the band in their path exploring new dimensions and inspirations.

Recorded between April and October/2019 at Wecando Music/Joinville
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Julio Cesar Schwochow

Mordor Truckers is a Stoner Rock band from Jaraguá do Sul/Brazil formed in June 2016 by Manuel Ceballos (vocal/guitar), Brendan Bazzi (drums) and Lucas Dal-Ri (bass). The band emerged from a conversation about the lack of Stoner Rock bands in the city featuring the heavy and slow and with psychedelic characteristics of the 70’s. The band show diverse influences ranging from Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple and even touching the heavier sounds like Black Sabbath, Kyuss and Dozer.

With a new lineup with Patrick Jordy in bass the band got their own brand with a particular sonority made to impact the listener. They aim their forces and influences to the mystical and intangible together with the influences of scientific articles and references from the 1940s, 50s and 60s, embracing the heavy and dirty sounds and conjuring the psychedelic and spacey influences together

In the year of 2019 the band was invited to participate in the Week of Rock promoted by the Secretariat of Culture in the city of Jaraguá do Sul playing alongside great bands from the city scene. In that event was possible to record the live EP of the band. In this 2020 year the band is preparing the process of the first studio EP with four tracks of intense and mesmerizing Psychedelic/Stoner Rock vibrations.

Mordor Truckers are:
Drums: Brendan Bazzi
Guitar/Vocals: Manuel Ceballos
Bass: Patrick Jordy

Mordor Truckers, Ao Vivo – Pequeno Anfiteatro (2019)

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