Now here is one creepy album. Imagine being lost in some netherworld where Midsummers Nights Dream has been turned into a disturbing horror film. This is what the music on this album does to you and it's not at all pleasant at times. It's also very, very good although be prepared to lose your mind at parts. It gets very strange.
Judging from the press release for these guys, they purvey in heavy psychedelic rock, maybe this is a blind curve though as what you get is acid folk which contains hints of black metal (the gothic-ness), trance music and whistling. Yes, whistling which is under-used in music for a certain reason. It very rarely works. Here, though, on 'Cain Go Home (2. session)' it serves has a sinking into the music as the album gets going.
Prior to that you have the whispered vocals of 'Night Children' lulling you into an unnerving sense of displacement. We are then taken on a story which involves goats, blind daughters and god knows what else. It is curious figment of some-ones imagination and you have to question whether there is much sanity left. You sure won't have much after listening to this.
Maybe the final piece of confusion arrives in the form of a trance music epic at the end of the album. Totally out of sorts with the acid folk of before, it is both jarring and also strangely makes sense. Very little else does on this album so maybe Death Hawks are offering us something to cling to. A weird escape from reality beckons if you are brave enough...be warned though, you may actually enjoy it.
