Haieeta - Mvemjsun (p) (2007)

 

Cost: 99¢

This is too varied for a comprehensive general description, so a quick track-by-track:

1. Dragonflies Terrain

This wasn't a great first impression, because while there's a sludgy, stoner-y feel to the music, the bounciness and vocals give off strong groove metal vibes.

2. Freeze the Flame

The intro has a super-heavy, doomy riff which are easily the best musical idea the band comes up with on the entire CD. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes more of a groovy rock song, and the vocals often have a sort of swaggery rap-adjacent delivery. At least the heavy riff recurs a few times. 

 

3. Haunted Gangster

More of a Southern metal vibe here, still with sludge/groove/stoner metal influences. While not my favorite kind of thing, the vocals and music mesh better here than on the other tracks.

 

4. White Knuckle

More upbeat and rocking, perhaps with some Black Label Society influence. 

 

5. Telepathic Love

Groovy stoner metal/rock, the closest they get to straightforward stoner rock on the disc. 

 

6. Residual Hill 

Stoner metal with some sludgy and even slightly doomy undertones. It's a 15 minute track containing nothing to justify that length, though. I was amused that there's a recurring riff that starts getting used about halfway through that has a chord progression that made me think ever so slightly of Metal Church's eponymous song.

 

This has a barcode so I'm not sure if it ever got legit distribution, but the presentation and even overall musical feel are much more like a demo CD. Can't say I was impressed by anything on here, but for 99 cents, I can't really complain. Don't think it's something I will ever listen to again, though.