Eerie - Eerie CD
Tracklisting: Hideous Serpent Yeti Master of Creation Immortal Rot Blood Drinkers Release Date: July 29, 2016 Label: Tee Pee Records Origin: USA It’s not often Tee Pee Records puts out an album by a band that’s described as black metal. Hell, they’ve probably never put out an album by a band that’s described as black metal. If you’re not familiar, Tee Pee’s wheelhouse is more along the lines of psych, stoner, punk, or garage rock. So when I caught wind that they were putting out the debut album from the “bi-coastal black metal / hard rock band” EERIE, my curiosity piqued. Featuring former Twilight guitarist (and tattoo great who also created the killer album art) Tim Lehi, bassist Dave Sweetapple (Witch), drummer Moses Saarni (Futur Skullz) and vocalist Shane Baker (Pins of Light, Alaric), EERIE’s brand of blackened sludge is greater than the sum of its parts. They avoid the typical pitfalls of many stoner rock bands. Too often we hear vanilla Sabbath worship without any boundary-pus