Inversum (LP)

A crossing looms in horizon. It's getting closer even though you don't seem to move. You feel the need to know what's behind each direction as the headlights flicker. As you finally get there, you are being crushed and swallowed in abysmal darkness full of psychedelic nightmares.



That is what I felt when listening to Dark Buddha Rising's first album, Ritual IX, in 2008.



Since then the four-piece has mastered their craft album by album, show by show. Ominous riffing, colossal doom, swirling psychedelia, repetition, repetition, repetition. The recipe is carved in stone, yet it leads to different endings - or bottomless shafts. Tension, tension, tension, lunacy.


If Inversum is your maiden voyage with the Finnish group I'd be willing to exchange my soul in order to hear the Buddha's offering with virgin ears.



I only have one advice to give: Hold tight. The winds are gathering.



- Jukka Hätinen, freelance editor