Beehoover-Heavy Zooo

Exile on Mainstream/Southern

2008

Beehover are a bass and drum duo that play an offbeat style of heavy music. Now they adore some good, raw and heavy riffs. Most of their songs begin around their love a big, meaty riff. After establishing that they then slowly begin to venture of his other directions yet they never loose site of that riff. At first I took this approach as being somewhat repetitive, but I don't think that's fair. It's more like the main riff is their hive and the two instruments do at times leave that hive and go off in other directions yet they always return. Many of the songs start off in a very simple manner but they soon divide and bring different sounds and styles into the expanding mix. There is often a sense of subtlety because they know that they can amaze and astound your senses without having to beat you over the head. They were probably raised on equal doses of Budgie, Sabbath and ELP and they probably love TOOL and OM as well. They still manage to create their own addictive and bizarre interpretation of those influences. This band obviously love some down and dirty doom, but they embrace prog-rock as well. So they end up combining the two into an oftentimes uneven marriage of sorts that somehow manages to work. This is not an album for everyone because it does require patience because they are taking their own time about building these songs exactly as they see fit. However if you sit back and enjoy ride then you are in for bone-rattling, mind-numbing experience.