SMOKE MOUNTAIN - Self Titled
Self Released
Here we have the self-titled debut EP from a Tallahassee, Florida band who sound like they wanna be the next CASTLE or WINDHAND with less musicians. SMOKE MOUNTAIN are a three piece stoner rock outfit whose influence comes solely from the b-side of SABBATH's Masters of Reality and side A of Volume Four. I won't fault em for that since in this genre it's SABBATH or bust. It is too bad that Iomni can't get at least something monetary from all of his riffs being borrowed.
But anyways as I mentioned before, SMOKE MOUNTAIN are a three piece which got together a few years ago and consists of Sarah Pitt on vocals, Lee Pitt on guitar and Brian Pitt on drums. By the way Sarah and Lee are married plus Lee and Brian are brothers. Talk about a family affair. Maybe if the brother gets married then they'll have a bass player. By the way this EP of theirs also contains three cuts which is tolerable considering there's not much in the way of variety going on.
But lets give credit to which it's due. The release starts out with a cool uptempo cut "Demon" which really reminds me of CASTLE. You've got some real dirty stoner riffage with Sarah's dark vocals carrying it through. The drum work is standard bang and crash but hey it works. After that the band gets more sludgey and fuzzy on "Violent Night" with the vocals coming close to the wails of WINDHAND's Dorthia Cottrell. The final cut, the eponyous "Smoke Mountain", is a mid-tempo dirge. Of course this is just a small taste since the band is planning to release a full length in the near future. Maybe if the drummer gets married they'll have a bass player. Either way I like who they sound like and those two bands have peetered out of late so SMOKE MOUNTAIN might take over.
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