"Foehammer"

The last time Liverpudlian trio Conan appeared around these parts, they'd just leveled the joint with their mammoth debut album, Monnos. The Liverpudlian trio have kept plenty busy since then with a live album and split with Bongripper, but have finally climbed back up on the horse and hit the studio to craft atheir sophomore LP. Blood Eagle is out February 28 on Napalm, and may full well be the band's most punishing achievement yet.

Conan's self-styled "battle doom" tag is fitting given the band's unabashed reverence for fantasy, and the confrontational nature of the music itself. "Foehammer" is aggressive and raw, galloping by in a blur of stoner doom before sinking into a magma-thick morass. The band use their supremely distorted, ungodly heavy guitars as a battering ram whilst vocalist/guitarist Jon Davis yells desperate war cries atop the carnage. It's a chaotic and intimidating approach, and by the end, the song overwhelms by sheer sonic heft.