pinkytheent
This album just sounds GREAT. I am in love with the incredibly warm, live sound that's like salvation against all the many records overproduced into computerization. Love the blooming purply hugeness of the bass and drums and the jangly guitars that howl like psychedelic early Misfits. Every note and drum beat just has so much live-wire character. There's a pulp fiction vibe to this record that gives it an addictive attitude and fit to the artwork. Great material done well.
Favorite track: El Diablo.
doomdummy
This is the closest thing I've heard to Satan's Satyrs since... well, our last show. The production is very warm and abrasive sounding, and you can tell they recorded this live. Great record overall and a lot of these riffs are pretty addicting. It might not be wholly original, but for what it is, its damn good; its honest rock and roll.
Favorite track: Hell on Earth.
lex_icondevil
Support these guys… This is the real thing, groovy 70’s hard garage, Zeppelin, Stooges, Uncle Acid all mixed up with artworks that fits perfectly with the mood of music!
earth
what is going on in Argentina? this has more than a little of that mephisto special touch. Absolutely love the range of music in this album. One of my 2021 highlights!
Favorite track: Trapped Down.
Sahara - III: Hell on Earth
Release date CD/MC/DIGITAL: March 25th, 2022
Release date vinyl: June 28th, 2022
HELTER SKELTER PRODUCTIONS (distributed & marketed by REGAIN RECORDS) is proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Argentina’s SAHARA, III: Hell on Earth, on CD, vinyl, and cassette tape formats.
A cult band in the stoner-doom scene, Argentina’s SAHARA released two celebrated studio full-lengths as well as a live album and a split with now-labelmates Mephistofeles before involuntarily disbanding in 2019. But with the help of Mephistofeles members Gabriel Ravera (bass) and Ivan Sacharczuk (drums), founder Martin Ludi decided to continue with SAHARA. Earlier in 2021, the band had released the four-track comeback EP The Curse through HELTER SKELTER, teasing what the future holds – and now, that future has arrived, darker and more drugged-out than ever in III.
Elegantly (and logically) titled, III is indeed SAHARA’s third full-length, and it shows them in fine, frazzled form. Rusty-cage RAW, punkish yet impossibly catchy, and as thundering and throttling as ever, III ticks all the proper stoner-doom boxes. BUT, thankfully, SAHARA prove they’re more than a one-trick pony (or at least a band bound by “boxes”) by drawing equal strength from way-ancient garage rock and early psych, sounding like some lost Nuggets compilation cult who get thawed out in the 21st century and found way-harder drugs. The integration of those Mephistofeles members has truly paid off here, as SAHARA’s interplay taps into that grand tradition of power-trios who emphasize POWER: sure, you can definitely rock out to III and celebrate good times, bad times – we know you’ve had your share! – but they’re just as likely to burrow you into the dirt and bury you with their physicality. As such, SAHARA’s comeback album is as imposing as it is inviting.
The clock strikes III and your doom is assured: at long last, SAHARA have returned from the void!
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Fantastic album from front to back! Incredibly catchy, fuzzy riffs, great songwriting and powerful lyricism.
A classic of modern heavy psych / stoner music! Brett
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