Japanese doom metal/hardcore duo Blacklab share new music video for »Dark Clouds« taken from their latest studio album »In A Bizarre Dream«

Osaka, Japan based doom metal/hardcore duo Blacklab share new music video for the track »Dark Clouds« taken from their latest studio album, »In A Bizarre Dream«, released on August 19th, 2022 via New Heavy Sounds.

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»Dark Clouds« is the other side of the Dark Witch Doom Duo from Osaka’s coin. A dark slice of D-Beat fuelled hardcore, fierce and ferocious. This is doom meets hardcore punk. The track is taken from their third album »In A Bizarre Dream« which is available to pre-order now.

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Blacklab are back. The self-proclaimed ‘Doom witch duo from Osaka’ drop their third album »In A Bizarre Dream« which ups the ante considerably from their previous records, to let rip and define what Blacklab are about. The combined talents of Jun Morino on production and Wayne Adams (Big Lad, Green Lung, Pet Brick, John, Cold In Berlin) on the mix have conspired to produce a towering beast of a record. A real step forward for the ‘Doom Witch Duo’.

The drums have a humungous ‘Fugazi’ like welly, and the guitars are a boiling maelstrom of fuzz dense riffola, hardcore punk and warped psychedelics, with added synth. The drums are rolling thunder and ferocious D-Beat, and singer Yuko’s throat shredding snarls are as mean as a pissed off Satan, and melodious, often within the same song.

This is doom meets hardcore punk, hooky melodies, and killer riffs, all cranked up to the max. Plus there’s a real surprise in there with Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab contributing lead vocals on one track.

Japan has always had a special take on ‘noise’ and ‘heavy’ and with »In A Bizarre Dream« Blacklab add their own spin to that tradition.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well