Los Angeles trio Faetooth aren’t just making doom, they're conjuring it. Made up of Ari May (guitars, vocals), Jenna Garcia (bass, vocals) and Rah Kanan (drums) their second offering, Labyrinthine, showcases their brand of self-proclaimed fairy doom, inviting you into a musical forest appropriately thick with riffs, sorrow and supernatural gloom.
The opening pair of Iron Gate and Death Of Day set the tone early on with eerie, ethereal textures giving way to sludgy, gut-rattling riffs. There’s beauty here, but it’s wrapped in thorns. The vocals float like ghostly figures swooning across an eerie swamp, pulling you deeper into a dream that’s turning into a nightmare. It’s the sound of moonlight being swallowed by mist.
Then comes the standout Hole, inciting even more of this visceral cat