Head over to Raven Sings The Blues website to hear an exclusive premiere of the 10 minute heavy bombardment of Noise-laden Folk Horror opus 'Lof' - taken from Smote's forthcoming album 'Genog' released on Friday 10th of March.
Check out the track:
“I love world building and folk tales” Dan Foggin from Smote states, who cites the 2013 film ‘Hard To Be A God’ as the single biggest influence on Smote’s aesthetic - “An incredible example of mood and atmosphere throughout, an absolute masterpiece.”
True to form, perhaps the centrepiece of Genog is the mighty ‘Lof’. Driven by an ominous and bewitching central riff, this totem of monomania transcends its post-Velvets, folk and ‘70s Swedish Psych influences to thunder forth singularly akin to a ceremonial procession from a place as enigmatic and daunting & bleak as the quasi-medieval pandemonium of the same film.
'Genog' is available on ltd edition 'Moss Green' via Bandcamp, or you can pick up the Ltd vinyl from your favourite record shop too if Bandcamp is sold out.
Smote have these shows coming up, with more in the pipeline:
17 March / Newcastle / The Lubber Fiend
9 April / London / Shacklewell Arms
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