Even in terms of those who aren’t content with sitting still for too long, it typically takes a while for talent to come back around with new material with it usually taking a minimum of a few years before we hear from the same group twice. Yet, it’s becoming more commonplace in the vast underground that there are those that sitting don’t know how to put the strings down or prevent the excellence from flowing like a raging river. It was barely a year ago that Clouds Taste Satanic came around with its seventh full-length album, “Tales of Demonic Possession”, and that was more than enough to sate any appetite for their monumental brand of instrumental post-doom metal for some time. Clearly, though, the New York quartet had different ideas. Born from the ashes of a halted film production, the unit’s eighth work stands as another undeniable triumph of an experience.

Seemingly taking a page from the works of “Evil Eye” and “Second Sight” from five years ago, Clouds Taste Satanic offers up a more spacious creation than what we got last year, yet it is in every way that Clouds Taste Satanic makes it clear that their potency has not waned in the slightest despite their surprising rate of production. Having been throwing down speechless excellence for ten years now, “79 A.E.” stands as another monolithic testament to the band’s expansive power. Two tracks both clocking over twenty-one minutes, this is the soundtrack to the post-apocalyptic wasteland where the impact of the meteors are felt in every riff, the struggle to survive is constant through the ever-present heaviness, and the pondering of the will to go on persists in the atmospheres which Clouds Taste Satanic weave into a fascinating tapestry whose details become all the more dynamic and impressive the closer you look. Clouds Taste Satanic hasn’t a need to prove themselves in any capacity for several years now, yet it is at every turn throughout “79 A.E.” that the act felt like they were well and truly out for blood. Riffs that are as thick as ever, a concept that leaves just enough to the imagination for a unique experience from one listener to the next, and a clear mastery of the craft that permeates the entire effort, how could this work have been destined for anything other than greatness?

Years of dominating at every opportunity and showing us just how adept they are in this particular corner of fantastic smoky heaviness, Clouds Taste Satanic still has yet to find an equal that can come even close to challenging their reign. Where many would’ve taken a failed project on the chin and moved on, it is with every given facet of “79 A.E” that Clouds Taste Satanic transforms it into another effortless victory.

LISTEN to an advanced track from “79 A.E.” on Bandcamp here.

LIKE Clouds Taste Satanic on Facebook here.