Band:	Pyramido
Album:	Sand
Style:	Doom metal, Stoner metal
Release date:	May 18, 2009
A review by:	Lucas

01. 2 Years 8 Months 21 Days
02. Calculating Doom
03. Carry Us to War
04. Cutthroat
05. Above Our Head

A howling wind blows an endless storm of sand in your face. A caravan of thoughtless, coarse stoner-riffs appears on the horizon. Your feet slowly sink into the quicksand. The caravan's captain relentlessly shrieks his commands, rhythmically and demoniacally goading his subordinates. You are in Pyramido's desert and you are in deep shit.

Sand is Pyramido's first full-length and a damn enjoyable one at that. I'll mention Sleep and Electric Wizard now, so the obligatory band-referencing is done and dealt with. Remains nothing but rhythmically entrancing, blazing and scorching, marijuana-driven (clichés 2, Lucas 0) stoooooooner. It is sometimes a little difficult to tell where each song ends and a new one begins, but seriously, who cares? A good sense of combining monotony with dynamics (how odd that may sound) is all you need, and whether that ends in five ten-minute tracks or one fifty-minute track, I couldn't care less. And if I could, I would. Whether you're listening to "Calculating Doom", "Cutthroat" or "2 Years 8 Months 21 Days", the stonerriffic and desperate tortured screaming are there for your masochistic listening pleasure.

It may not be a surprising listen at first, but it's pretty damn addictive. You will find this doing its hazy rounds in your CD-player round more often than you initially expected. A great release of completely unpretentious, focused and determined, dry as fuck, catchy metal. Fuck yes. Mr. Elephant will trample your soul.