Album Review: Sorceress- Beneath the Mountain (w/bonus Myths of the Mountain Rumor Table!)
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Sorceress are (were) a 4-piece doom act from 2008-2011. They released this album in 2009, went on indefinite hiatus, put out 2 tracks on a split release in 2016, and then in 2023 we got this remastered reissue on King Volume records of Santa Fe. They also host Mizmor, the current band of Sorceress’s A.L.N. which is pretty fucking sick. But this isn’t about them- back to Sorceress! In 2009, doom was following in the footsteps of Electric Wizard and Sleep, and soon to bust open with Bongripper, Weedeater, and others’ classic releases. Sorceress preceded that mini-renaissance and took a more retro approach like The Sword and Witchcraft but with more of a psychedelic influence. To describe it briefly, I would call it a hybrid of Pallbearer and The Sword, loping along at a more measured pace. I’m coming to it after its top-notch remaster (“sumptuous” comes to mind), so I couldn’t tell you how it hit at the time of its first release. But 15 years later, it’s no bygone glory, it holds up. It’