One of our main functions at AFS and ABMN is to help foster, nurture and reveal new bands under our specific musical purviews that take a stand in the battle against oppression and exploitation.

And it is a great pleasure when one of these is of such high quality as today’s feature, the US project Ammonoid which melds doom, progressive and some old-school heavy sensibilities to bring us an experience that, as they state themselves on their BCs, is not quite like any other.

The instrumental is bass-heavy and sludgey, not quite crushing but instead rather trippy, which is actually very good in this case as it combines very well with the impressive voicework of singer Emily Palen; the resulting effect is something like Anneke van Giersbergen singing for a jam between Blue Oyster Cult and Khemmis, or Jess and the Ancient Ones with a small, tasteful dose of what Dream Theater does when they’re good.

By which we mean, this song is VERY GOOD. It comes enveloped in a very nice, dream-like cover art by Joanna Barnum which the band turned into a simple, yet mesmerizing animated video which fits the music very well. Nothing here is overtly complicated or extremely new; the parts themselves are simple, what is innovative is the particular configuration in which they are arranged, and that, folks, makes all the difference!

⚔️ AMMONOID ⚔️

BC: https://ammonoid.bandcamp.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ammonoidofficial
FB: https://www.facebook.com/ammonoidofficial/