Rezn & Vinnum Sabbathi : "Silent Future"

Here is an expected collaboration. Chicago doom-gazers REZN are on my my favorite new bands. but I have never really heard anything from the Mexico City's Vinnum Sabbathi. I went and listened to one of the previous albums just to figure out who is doing what here. It seems the way things go is  Vinnum is all about making heavy desert stoner metal with samples as ambiance. For those of you not familiar with REZEN they make trippy shoe-gazing prog rock that leans into doom when it gets to the heavier side of the dynamics. Their strong point is vocalist  Rob McWilliams who can sing on anything and I am going to be fine with it. Now that I acquainted myself with Vinnum Sabbathi it's easy to hear where they take the lead with samples and bong crunching riffs, while REZN handles the vocal melodies and all things taking this in a more Pink Floyd direction. 

My only complaint so far is a rather uniform atmosphere haunting the second and third songs, make them bleed together, where a song like "Hypersurreal" takes the vocals on a different trip through space, and lends itself to more dynamic motion. The darker shade of ambiance add to a more morose mood that I find more pleasing. Rob cries out that he is all alone and it is believable given the stormy tension that had been haunting the song up to this point. While surreal sample narrated interludes break things up, there is a hypnotic throbbing vibe that causes a great deal of this album to glide on past in a haze of reverb soaking up Rob's vocals. There is a cool slithering riff that works a descending pattern to carry the bulk of " Morphing" 

Things take the hardest turn into psychedelia with "Obliterating Mists". It ranges from the darker moments of Pink Floyd's dystopian musings to soundings like two bands that just got stoned and jammed. Due to the songs sometimes hot boxing themselves into bong beaten trance, I am going to give this album a 9.which puts it head and shoulders above the meanders of most stoner rock bands who are tripping their nuts off, but I do not feel it's as good as REZN's last album, which is a pretty high bar for what this is it's pretty cool and worth a listen then next time 420 hits the clock.