Evan Caminiti - Psychic Mud Shrine

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5...according to our Phil on Fri 20 Nov, 2009.

Evan Caminiti is one of the dudes from Barn Owl and we've just got a new CD in by him on Digitalis called Psychic Mud Shrine. His last CD on Students of Decay sold out in about 5 minutes but there was only 100 of those and Barn Owl are getting pretty popular these days. Anyway you get a handful of long-ish tracks of dark drone and lots of fuzzy distorted metal infused guitars. In between the louder noisier moments are floaty segments of sheer beauty. It's a mixed bag of light and dark which have been carefully pieced together to make an epic thing of monstrous proportions. It's a seriously good record which will leave you wanting more and more.... Melting Temple/ Plumes of Babylon has been on for a good 10 minutes now and I feel like I'm spinning around in a vortex over a roasting hot desert with goat skulls in.... Well Evil Dead 3!

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For my money, Barn Owl is the best new band to emerge in the last five years. Their trajectory has been meteoric, progressing musically and conceptually in leaps and bounds. I've been thrilled to be there from the beginning, watching and listening in awe as the duo of Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti have carved out an impressive niche of their own. Heavy doses of guitar savagery and tribal essence have them firmly planted at the top of the mountain. So it makes sense to deconstruct the duo and present each as a solo entity, soaring on their own.

In a perfect world, Evan Caminiti would be a guitar god worshipped by hordes of spike-wearing metalheads. Seriously. Caminiti's newest solo offering (and first large-scale release) is a big, smoldering mass of guitar sacrifices. We're deep down in the hollows now. "Psychic Mud Shrine" is epic in every way. Thick, massive walls of lava-flow guitars bow down at an altar of excess. Caminiti creates jagged drones like no other. Distorted guitars sound simultaneously tortured and energized like it's unsure if this hell on earth brings pleasure or pain. It's just so fucking massive. With titles like "Melting Temple/Plumes of Babylon," you know what direction this is heading and it's a train you don't want to miss.

"Psychic Mud Shrine" is a powerful statement from an artist coming into his own. Over the course of four sprawling masterpieces, you'll be entranced and exalted. This album rings out from the deep valleys carved straight to the fucking core.

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