After hearing so much of what the underground has to offer, it cannot be overstated how much a little bit of a different approach can make for a truly wild difference. We’ve seen all sorts of innovation thrusted into existence even if the sounds originally had no business coming together with the possibilities only limited by the imagination and ambition of artists all over the world. It’s only a matter of time before we come across a creation with a sound quite unlike anything that we’ve heard before in some form or another with such a thing something that captures the imagination and tickles something at the base of our skulls in such a form that makes the work really stand out right from the get-go. In no small way, Buzzard achieved that and more with their most recent oddity.

Much like how there’s nothing that can come to some high-quality metal that knows precisely what it’s doing every step along the way, there aren’t very many things out there that can ever hope to compare to some expertly done Americana music. Every now and then do we see the themes of Americana inspire an act in the underground to make for an engaging and certifiably different performance (see Inter Arma’s “Sky Burial”), but by no means is it common to see a band go headfirst and fully embrace the concepts of the style and then intertwine all of that with a metallic coating that makes for a creation that defies normal categorization. With the thirteen tracks of “Mean Bone”, Buzzard dared to do that with doom and occult rock and pulled it off gorgeously! In every given moment of this record, we are given a vast array of dark but undeniably catchy creations that pull you ever deeper into the unique realm that Buzzard holds dominion over. No two songs feel quite the same as Buzzard weaves a dark tapestry that brings together folklore, heaviness, and compellingly simplistic rhythms that when combined make for a performance that’s nigh on enchanting from the very moment you step before what “Mean Bone” has to offer. It’s got an infectious nature to it that is only amplified by the vicious heaviness that exists in virtually every given minute of the record, allowing the work to become so much more than what we already weren’t expecting.

Buzzard constantly manages to deliver on every possible promise that bringing these two distinct genres together could ever have with the results as satisfying as they are diabolic in nature. By and large, what’s delivered within “Mean Bone” stands tall as a creation all its own that demonstrates the ingenuity behind Buzzard to make them the newest band with a sound that we never knew we needed.

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