Icelandic four-piece Dead Skeletons seem drawn to an air of grandeur. The band’s first full-length album was initially shrouded in mystery; the band released six videos from Dead Magick in the build-up to its release over the past two years, their album is a considerable 73 minutes long, and the album artwork is a rather large and imposing skull. Unfortunately, Dead Magick is a thoroughly demanding and dense listen – over an hours’ worth of psychadelica is never going to fly in, but this isn’t helped by despondent vocals and little in the way of imagination. There are bands doing this sort of thing well – A Place To Bury Strangers and The Brian Jonestown Massacre to name but two – but Dead Skeletons are some way off joining this elite club just yet.
(As featured in AU, here)
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