Exploration and allowing your music to become organic and engaging is something that has always played a big role in all that many free-spirited creations are made out of, and that goes double for those within the shifting confines of psychedelic rock. It’s the backbone for so many different works that are captivating from top to bottom and it’s something that can really make or break an album if there isn’t enough of it. When we do get a visage that embodies what such a concept can be, we are given a magnificent display of color and prowess the likes of which this style was destined to make. In no small way, Bloodwood accomplished that is excellent style in their latest effort.

Out of the gate, psychedelic rock already has a lot going on within its “normal” confines of what the genre has to offer purely because of all that has been done with the style along with all that there is still to be accomplished. That’s a swirling cauldron of flavors and potential that not many are able to balance and measure out for an impactful performance. Therefore, to add more would be to tempt both fate and yourself as a musician in so many different ways. While I cannot speak for the mindset that Bloodwood had while their crafted their latest offering of “Dark Simulator”, it’s clear around practically every given turn that this Australian quartet knew precisely what it was doing and was damn set on sculpting a work that’s overwhelming in its detail and downright tantalizing in its many flavors of psychedelia, hard rock, ambient, metal, and stoner notions. Easily, this is an intimidating list of ingredients for anyone with the results of “Dark Simulator” simply captivating right from the beginning. Constantly ebbing and flows between calculated heaviness and ethereal bliss, the scope of this record is as wide as it is deep with all that has gone into simply electrifying to become one with from its riffs to its atmospheres to its bouts of sudden heaviness to all make for a tremendously dynamic experience loaded with the best kind of push and pull that one could ask for from an effort that really shoots for the stars.

Anything could have gone wrong in the crafting of this record, and it’s a true testament to the power of Bloodwood itself that they managed to not only deliver on a scale that sees everything brought together seamlessly but in a way that feels fluid and downright captivating right from the beginning. “Dark Simulator” has much to call its own with the sheer depths of its color and emotion something that deserving of becoming lost within for the raw euphoria that’s to be had every single time.

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