Ancestors - Neptune With Fire [North Atlantic Sound - 2008]Ancestors are a five piece band from Los Angeles who play a memorable and epic, mid-pace to up-beat mix of 70’s soaked doom, jammed-out rock grooves & psychedelics, with touches of more modern doom and metal here and there. Neptune With Fire is their debut album and the first release on new label North Atlantic sound. Running just shy of forty minute mark in all, but with just two huge doom grooved-out, psychedelic soaked, rocking and hypnotic tracks on offer. The title track opens up proceedings with a nice up-beat rocking doom riff and fairly standard throaty rock vocals, sounding a bit like an clear American version of Electric Wizards more up paced moments. Then it drops into a rather nice racing down the track guitar soloing groove, before dropping into a bassy and spacey groove break down before slowly winding it’s self up to more soloing before the vocals come in one last time as the track nears it’s end at the 17 minute mark. Lastly we have Orcus’ Avarice which is the lengthier of the two tracks at just over 20 minutes & having more variation in sound than the first track too. Starting out with a great memorable church organ opening before kick in with a slower doom-rock groove weaved with halloween organ tones. As the track progresses it goes through all manner of twist and turns down into clear vocal bassy rock passages, rocking freak outs & stripped down moments. All finishing off with a superb and soaring mix of female choir like voices, organ and emotional touched & cinematic doomy rock vibe- pretty amazing stuff really. An highly enjoyable and replayable debut album- that shows great future hope for both Ancestors and north Atlantic sound label.    Roger Batty
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