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Pharaoh Overlord
12+ albums
Psychedelic RockStoner Rockpsychedelicspace rockstoner
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Finland's Pharaoh Overlord take huge rock songs and turn them into minimal trance-inducing drones. Pharaoh Overlord features members of Circle. Their first record features heavy stoner rock influence, albeit reduced to its base elements and turned into minimalism. Their second and third albums feature krautrock/motorik influences, with more experimental tendencies coming through - using the "loud silence" of their amps cranked to max as ambience/drone on #2, as well as noise and other sonic experimentation on #3. Album #4 brought about a change in sound, more influenced by new wave of heavy metal, but still approaching it using their minimalist/repetitive style. Out of Darkness followed, similar in style. 2012 saw the release of Lunar Jetman, which was (theoretically) the band's sixth studio release. Their sound was a mixture of minimalism, krautrock, repetitiveness and jam rock. Black Horse is a song that alternates the same repetitive riff between fast and slow tempos, placing it firmly in avant-garde/experimental territory, not far removed from Steve Reich pieces. 2015's Circle was full-blown electronic krautrock influenced by Can and Neu! (and probably Circle) 2018's Zero featured Antti Boman (from brutal death metal band Demilich) on vocals, while the music took the form of a more metalled-up krautrock, again similar to Neu! Boman's vocals are given a really harsh highlight on the first song, but they tend to mellow out as the album goes on (they're placed more in th
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