Salem's Pot
Pronounce This!
The 2016 album by the mysterious Swedish quintet Salem's Pot delivers truly gritty and captivating heavy rock, sounding like the sonic equivalent of 'The Last House On The Left', 'El Topo' and 'Blood Feast'. A hallucinogenic sense of true evil lurks in the dark corners of Salem's Pot's sound. Lest we forget, the band's name itself is a pun on Stephen King's stark, modernized vampire masterpiece. Where previous Salem's Pot releases honed doom riffs to perfection, 'Pronounce This!' sees the band expanding its horizons to the far corners of imagination. It's a hazy fever dream of dark, thrilling excess reminding of The Cramps, Pentagram, Roky Erickson, The Stooges, Deep Purple and Dead Moon... Revealing elements of metal, garage punk, acid rock and a belladonna trip gone wrong, this is no uncut heavy metal, but a mutant monster that cannot be tamed.