Møster!: Inner Earth

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Hans Magnus ‘Snah’ Ryan (g)
Kenneth Kapstad (d)
Kjetil Møster (bs, ts, elec)
Nikolai Eilertsen (b)

Label:

Hubro

Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Catalogue Number:

HUBROCD2548P

RecordDate:

11-12 January 2014

On this follow up to Møster!'s 2013 debut album, Edvard Lygre Møster, keyboardist Ståle Storløkken's Ra-ish synths and distorted Fender Rhodes have been replaced by the raw and guttural guitar of Hans Magnus ‘Snah’ Ryan, bandmate with drummer Kenneth Kapstad in Norwegian pysch-rock behemoth, Motorpsycho. Unsurprisingly, it changes the sound enormously – moving Møster! away from cosmic jazz-prog and closer to a plodding doom-jazz, heavy on industrial atmosphere. The long suite ‘Descending Into This Crater,’ sounds like a lumbering, nightmarish journey deep into the iron mountains and hellish furnaces of Mordor, with Ryan's roaring guitar disintegrating into great gouts of molten metal. In the second half of the album, beginning with the 14-minute ‘Tearatorn,’ the ominous shadow of King Crimson looms large, with frenzied sax and guitar navigating riffs of painful complexity, and building to a feverish finale in ‘Underworld Risk’ with boiling fuzz bass and pure free-form freak-out drums. It's good to know someone still remembers how to let their hair down these days.

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