The debut album from the self-described "bi-coastal black metal/hard rock" quartet,
Eerie delivers a defcon 4 level blast of beefy, unabashedly
Black Sabbath-adoring psych-doom rock. Boasting a seasoned crew of death peddlers consisting of revered tattoo artist and former
Twilight guitar player Tim Lehi, bass player Dave Sweetapple (
Witch), drummer Moses Saarni (
Futur Skullz), and vocalist Shane Baker (
Alaric,
Pins of Light), the seaboard-be-damned four-piece's eponymous long-player clocks in at just under 40 minutes. Relative brevity aside -- there are only five tracks --
Eerie make the most of their limited time in your head, offering up a storm of bluesy, wah-wah-pedal-driven gutter riffs, cavernous vocals, and thundering, tom-heavy percussion that feels both epic and darkly intimate. The band's influences are obvious, but they take great joy in delivering yesterday's news, with highlights arriving via the elastic,
Lovecraft-ian "Yeti" and the
Mastodon-meets-Butler/
Iommi swamp-romp "Immortal Rot." ~ James Christopher Monger