It’s hard enough for any band to emerge out of nothingness and make any sort of impact in the underground upon their arrival. To add on top of that trying to make material that can really catch the attention of more than a mere handful of people at best, and it doesn’t take much to realize how daunting any debut effort might be for a new aspiring act. It’s such that when a new name does come out of nothingness and impresses right out of the gate, people turn their heads in surprise with the volume absolutely cranked. That’s precisely what’s come about with the debut creation from Stone of Duna whose entry is certainly an eyebrow raiser.

Five tracks aren’t much to make much of an impression with, but given a runtime that stretches barely a few minutes shy of forty and more than enough understanding couple with loads of talent and things can take quite a turn for the very interesting. That’s just the beginning of what Stone of Duna brings to the table for its debut album, “Moonsplitter”. Rather than putting all of its chips into one particular style of the modern rock landscape, this album has its fingers in many different pots as we’re given a delicious variety of fuzz, psychedelia, straight forward riffs, and a hard rock approach that is not afraid to share the stage with an intense melodic factor that really drives the record forward. Putting all of that together in such a tempered way such that they all equally share in the glory is a difficult thing to pull off for any name, but Stone of Duna makes it looks like child’s play! “Moonsplitter” is but the beginning for what Stone of Duna has to offer, yet it feels truly undeniable that the future is so bright that it is certifiably blinding! This is the entrance that many throughout the scene can only ever dream of with few able to pull it off and even fewer still able to pull it off with such confidence and style as what Stone of Duna accomplishes at every turn in this tantalizing creation.

The landscape of the modern rock scene is a dynamic and unpredictable beast for all intents and purposes with sudden arrivals like what we have here but the tip of the iceberg for what the scene as a whole is still capable of delivering. They’ve set the bar quite high with “Moonsplitter” and all of its massive victories, yet I can’t help but get the gut feeling that Stone of Duna is poised to do utterly tremendous things if simply given the time to carefully craft them.

LISTEN to “Moonsplitter” on Bandcamp here.

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