This band from Ohio follows a pretty standard blueprint for stoner doom with the wall of Orange amp churning riffage, which is not redefining the genre in any fashion. In fact, it is almost the epitome of putting the capture of a sound over writing a song. Of course, there are going to be guitar solos in places that would have been better spent given to vocals to give this more soul. Something bands need to be thinking about, as you could type in traditonal doom metal riffs into whatever godforsaken AI program, and it could churn out something like this in 30 seconds, and I am not convinced that is not what happened here. I promise you smoking weed will not change this perspective. There is no chill out on this.
Vocals are employed for "Coma Dose" and they fall about in the expected range that check off the doom metal boes, the more song vocals float in on a whispered wave, then roar, more death metal vocals come in. The riff that opens "Roasting the Sacred Bones" is pretty typical metal. I think that more different guitar tones might have benefited them more. The verse riff is pretty kick ass, though cool riffs alone does not a good song make. The vocals are just harsher bellowing that follows the riff.
If a guitar player came in to audition for your band and played the last song, you would be impressed, ask him back and then jam on that idea, but let on it's own it is great guitar playing, but nothing original and something that needs more to flesh it out. I will give this album a 7.5, as it sounds solid, but is empty calories with little original ideas. But much of their fan base is likely too high to care.
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