With a name like Saltpig, there are a couple of ways the music can go – metal or industrial, maybe even rap rock infusion. In the case of Mitch Davis and Fabio Alessandrini, Saltpig is an amalgamation of psychedelic stoner metal with hits on 70’s rock and industrial undertones.
Within the six tracks of their self-titled debut album, Saltpig blends a sonic paint bucket of gritty guitars, thunderous basslines, and tinny drums. Sounds that at times make me think of Ministry.
The nineteen and half minute track, “1950” feels as if one has been dropped into the melting mind of an acid trip gone horribly wrong. It’s fraught with tension, dissonance, and cacophony of feedback and could have easily been a song in the soundtrack to the 2018 film Mandy.
Across all six dynamic tracks, Saltpig brilliantly weaves a tapestry of sound that is a fusion of heavy textures, grimy grooves, and explosive aural reverberation that is intoxicatingly dark and psychedelically divine. Their debut album is a fuzz-laden riff fueled trip that is bursting with unrelenting raw energy.
