Photo by Andrea Casagranda
“ThumpeRRR” is the latest single from psychedelic desert rock alchemists DESERT COLLIDER. The track comes off the band’s debut full-length, Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity, set for release on March 6th via Small Stone Recordings.
Drawing inspiration from the hypnotic grooves of the ’90s desert rock scene, the Italian four-piece blends elements of stoner, metal, space rock, and progressive rock with subtle psychedelic undertones to forge an expansive and immersive sound. Echoes of Kyuss, Lowrider, Monster Magnet, and Yawning Man give rise to a compact and determined sound that evolves into a loud stoner style that is at once both raw and sophisticated, balancing monolithic riffs with deep, atmospheric textures and a sense of cosmic storytelling.
After a year of relentless experimentation, DESERT COLLIDER entered Stone Bridge Studios to lay down their debut full-length, Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity. Produced and mixed by Andrea Cola and mastered by Karl Daniel Lidén (Lowrider, Dozer), the album features eight tracks that revolve around themes of self-loss and rediscovery, a yearning for the primordial, and the inner journey as the sole mission and pathway to redemption. Shifting between heaviness and atmospheric passages, the album adds to modern psych-stoner rock arrangements with intricate soundscape through the use of synths and acoustic interludes. Additionally, the album draws conceptual inspiration from the themes and ideas explored by [science fiction novelist] Robert A. Heinlein in his Orphans Of The Sky.
Comments Federico Costanzo (guitars, vocals, percussion, synthesizers) on “ThumpeRRR,” “The song is built and inspired by the Dune universe. It opens immediately with a fast, driving tempo and hard rock leaning riffs maintained as a bird’s eye shot above the desert planet. Intertwined vocals appear throughout and generate a call-and-response effect, dueling in overlap with the narrations. Midway, everything drops into a suspended section where distant guitars manifest in the silence of the desert. The thumper is placed: rhythm, sand, quakes. As the tension builds up, synths and a pulsing choir let the song coil tighter and tighter, gradually layering back in until the ending peaks with the inevitable rise of the sandworm: sacred, ancient, colossal, unstoppable.”
Adds Decibel, “It’s everything the overly long title of the album promises, a wonderland of lazy, fuzzed-out riffs, mind-tweaking sonic explorations and sci-fi weirdness. And the blissed-out heaviness these dudes are laying down feels like an Italian Kyuss-Hawkwind mash-up.”
Stream DESERT COLLIDER’s “ThumpeRRR” HERE.
DESERT COLLIDER’s Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity features additional strings and string arrangements on “ThumpeRRR” and “Far Centaurus: Drifting Without Guidance Through Interstellar Space” by Andrea Cola, artwork and design by Francesca Santini, and layout by Alexander von Wieding.
The record will be released on CD and digital formats as well as limited 180g vinyl (200 units on Amber Sandstorm).
Find preorders at the Small Stone Bandcamp page HERE where first single, “Floating Space Hand,” can be streamed.
Fans of Dozer, Black Elephant, Kyuss, Monster Magnet, and the like, pay heed.
DESERT COLLIDER:
Federico Costanzo – guitars, vocals, percussion, synthesizers
Federico Gianfanti – vocals, synthesizers
Manuel Colucci – bass
Andrea Casagranda – drums, percussion
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