Released on: 15th March 2019
Featuring timeless classics as Crunch Crunch, Heavily Funked Up Bass Line and Almost Drunken Gibbering (In A Strained But Enthusiastic Fashion) Marylands’ Asthma Castle have came down from a ten year stint up a mountain for their first full-length. Bringing their officially released track-o-graphy up to eleven.
Called Mount Crushmore the mesomorphic quintet have got a solid backbone of heavy blues inspired rock running behind this copper engraved album cover. And while the album might not be sold in an actual copper case what’s inside is conducive towards a good time. Thoust may find Satan Inside.
With clever song titles such as Methlehem and The Book Of Duderonomy it’s undeniable that Asthma Castle can defiantly blaspheme just as righteously as the old greats. Squaring up against the progenitors that have left a deep, dark mark on the genre of heavy rock and making this album a love letter to the most pitch-dark Sabbatical with its roots set in their prime.
So, definitely funky, destructively heavy and conceptually irreverent. Mount Crushmore from Asthma Castle has got all the makings of a good session baked into its very core. A party album with fun riffs and meaty rhythms. This ain’t so much ‘a’ beast as a facet of ‘The Beast,’ at least in accordance with the Abrahamic religions.
While playing to the sound of skullduggery Mount Crushmore has a very chiselled countenance and with that it offers many footholds and other crannies to scale its bigger than life sound with. But most importantly it’s an absolute joy from start to finish.
8/10
