On September seventh, Pilgrims of Doom dropped their eponymous LP, and with it, the self-titled single, Pilgrims of Doom, which fuses arduous rock with doom steel whereas reviving the arcane aura of 70s amplification via the modernity of AI augmentation.
It’s a daring flex from the Milan-based creator, who took a sonic danger by marrying reverence for doom’s ritualistic custom with experimental studio innovation, however the gamble pays off with a symphonically laced, intensely atmospheric anthem that hits with prophetic weight. The riffs lumber and rise like smoke from an iron altar, the rhythm part grinds with ritualistic momentum, and the vocals carry the sort of haunted command that drags you willingly into the void. If that is the way forward for doom, we would don’t have any selection however to bow to it.
Behind the mission is Federico Zimbaldi, often known as Nevralgia Digitale, who has constructed an impartial digital label on Bandcamp to discover the collision of AI and human emotion. By tasks reminiscent of Hammered Wizard and Hexepunk, Zimbaldi has formed sonic narratives that drift between eras and dimensions, telling tales too heavy to remain earthbound. Pilgrims of Doom is his newest and maybe most towering creation, and it alerts that that is the evolution we’ve been ready for.
Pilgrims of Doom is now accessible on all main streaming platforms; help the artist by buying their LP on Bandcamp.
Assessment by Amelia Vandergast
