Album Review: Lunar Funeral – Road to Siberia (Helter Skelter/Regain Records)

Hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia’s Lunar Funeral are aptly named: their bluesy, psych-drenched doom ROCK walks along the edge of the cosmos with preternatural ability

Helter Skelter Productions (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) will release Lunar Funeral’s highly anticipated second album, Road to Siberia, on July 24th, 2021 on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

A welcome reminder that no matter how well you think you know a genre, there is always a band out there willing to challenge that. To challenge your perception of genres and what you should expect from a certain style of music.

In this case, it’s Lunar Funeral who are doing the challenging and it’s their take on doom that looks to break perceptions. It’s doom but not as you know it. The disorientating and psychedelic sounds is baffling but impressively addictive. The whole album has a heaviness but a disconnected one, as though you’re hearing it from another dimension.

It can be mellow, calming, intense and crushingly heavy… sometimes all in the exact same song. You really have to admire such an array of styles especially when the album’s core is still clear and present. This is a doom album, it just so happens to be one heavily influenced by blues, psych and rock. It also happens to be a damn bloody good one.

Road to Siberia will stay with you long afterwards even if it’s an album that needs multiple listens. There is just so much going on and every track offers up something different or fresh sounding. Yes, it’s unusual and challenging but that just makes it all the more fun to hear.

Lunar Funeral – Road to Siberia Full Track Listing:

1. Introduce
2. The Thrill
3. 25th Hour
4. Black Bones
5. Silence
6. Your Fear Is Giving Me Fear
7. Don’t Send Me To Rehab

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