There has always been something shamanic about the music that Golem Dance Cult creates, a feeling that seems to emanate from their ability to channel, capture, or perhaps even exorcise, something from humanity’s own primal, maybe even primeval past. It’s the same sort of spirit that fueled everything from early blues music, especially if you believe the mythology associated with the likes of Robert Johnson, the dark urges of bands like The Doors and Killing Joke, and which pulses through this duo’s creative bloodstream.
“Call of the Wendigo” is intense and coiled; it is dense, dark, and delirious. It runs on propulsive bass lines and sonorous beats, abrasive guitars, and chant-like vocals, but more so, it evokes a feeling of ancient dread and existential threat, sonic horror, and musical annihilation. It is raw and reptilian in the way that it crawls towards the listener; this is not music that you engage with; it is music that you are consummed by, wilfully or otherwise.
As a taste of their new album, Shamanic Faultlines, “Call of the Wendigo” (a cannibalistic creature from Algonquian folklore, since you asked) tells you everything you need to know about the band and their music, or at least enough to draw you in. It’s been two years since the band’s excellent debut album, Legend Of The Bleeding Heart, but this one track alone is enough to reassure listeners that they haven’t lost their touch; in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
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