It’s a tight, punchy rhythm section that pins down the Sabbath as filtered through Melvins riffological rock sound of the appropriately titled ‘Monolith’ that kicks and claws open Beehoover’s fourth album. ‘Rock monster’ may be a cliché, but this is one beast of a release. Unashamedly old-school in almost every way, ‘The Devil and his Footmen’ is also strangely refreshing. The duo may only use bass and drums by way of instrumentation, but you’d never know it. The result, then, is a colossal slab of stoner rock brings chunky (bass) guitars right to the fore and the thunderous chug is headbanger’s heaven. ‘Boy vs Tree’ builds around a brutal, snarling bass and a manic vocal.
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Lyrically, the album harks back to ancient mysticism from days of yore and even prehistory (the lumbering ‘Dear Mammoth’), and are appropriately epic, pitching battles between good and evil that have raged for all eternity. The driving stop-start heavy metal thunder of ‘My Mixtape Sucks Bigtime’ shows they’re anything but rock dinosaurs, though.
It’s heavy-duty stuff alright, and doesn’t so much hit the spot as batter it into oblivion.
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