Pagan Lust are an addictive band. For those who like to explore genres and ranges within one band, you’re in luck. This band likes to stir the cauldron of sin and bring out some real bangers. So much so, they have been featured in Netflix’s Love is Blind. There must be something about their dark magic, that people cannot resist. This is their latest album, Commie Salami Mommie.
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Three things that put together, might not make sense. Pagan Lust are teasing the American population by even mentioning communism, which calls for teeth grinding rage. Channel it out when you hear the opening single, Dispossessed. You know when you listened to Highway Star by Deep Purple the first time? There is that raw energy with punk roots crafted around this trophy of a song. Why start an album slow, when it can be a rocket launcher fuelled with megalomania, hydrogen and lust? Feeds switches the gear down to an unassuming, simple melody. The returning bass line makes for a track with a dapper finish, with some kick-ass build. You’ll feel your heartbeat race, waiting for when that drop comes. Keep waiting. The band is called Pagan Lust, you think you’re going to get what you want when you want it? Nightmare on.
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Hard rock and hedonism
The next is a blues tainted track called Public Opinion. Just like the band, I hate public opinion. If the dunce of the class had their opinion in national matters, we could be in trouble electing a president. Oh wait. The fun track is at warp speed, and has some incredibly catchy swings that make it a radio playing favourite. Why Marge? sifts through some quick classic rock tropes that make you want to groove. Pagan Lust is on fire, and they have taken their 2 years to make an album that is seared in your brain with Satan’s branding rod. We reach the Mommie part of it all with Mother. This is no Danzig track, so expect to be surprised. The riff is something I can imagine an entire drunken/not drunken crowd sing along to, and then jump like maniacs during the chorus.
Demon Sweat has a killer bass line, and the band knew it. Standing in the spotlight, that’s all you will focus on till 0:42. Then the texture changes a whole lot in very less. It is a marvellous change, and you find yourself waiting for it to return. It doesn’t get more direct than this, with Go to Hell. The songs are a killer door kicker while all having their individual tinge and taste.
By the time you get to Malady, you find yourself wanting to just loop back to the start. Pagan Lust has drawn their swords forged by human sin with this album. There is more to come, you just have to not be gluttonous. Or you can go to hell.
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