Release
Date: October 3rd, 2025
Format: Vinyl Reissue
Genre: Doom/Stoner/Occult Metal
Country: Argentina
Mephistofeles has carved their name deep into the
dark corners of the global doom underground. Emerging from Argentina’s stoner
scene, they built their reputation on sleaze, fuzz, and a dangerous sense of
psychedelia. Their sound is unpolished and narcotic, steeped in a love for
distortion and the occult. What began as a local curiosity quickly became an
international cult, and these reissues remind listeners where the legend began.
“Whore,”
their 2016 debut, is the raw ignition point. The production is as unrefined as
it gets, with guitars coated in grit and the vocals sounding like they were
summoned from a basement séance. It captures that dangerous charm of early
doom, when imperfections made things heavier instead of weaker. The tracks roll
through slow, menacing riffs and nihilistic lyrics about death, addiction, and
decay. It’s ugly in a beautiful way, like finding an old bootleg that sounds
cursed but alive.
By 2017’s “(
( ( I ' M H E R O I N ) ) ),” Mephistofeles had
found their groove in filth. The songs stretch out and become hypnotic, less
about structure and more about losing time inside repetition. The atmosphere is
narcotic, dragging the listener down into an endless spiral of fuzz and echo.
There’s a strange humor behind the madness too, as if the band is self-aware of
how depraved their trip has become. It’s no surprise that Jus Oborn from Electric
Wizard took notice, this album reeks of that same obsession with evil
blues and drugged-out ritualism.
“Satan Sex
Ceremonies,” released in 2019, is where the band fully drowned in their own
fog. The production is distant, warped, and suffocating. It’s the kind of doom
that sounds like it’s rotting while it plays. Long tracks like the titletrack
drag the listener through slow-motion horror scenes drenched in fuzz and analog
hiss. The overall experience is more trance than album, the kind of record that
could loop endlessly in a dark room while incense burns down to ash.
Taken
together, these three albums show Mephistofeles’
journey from primitive basement doom to something deeper and more narcotic.
They don’t aim for perfection or reinvention, they thrive on repetition,
heaviness, and bad taste. The sound is intentionally sick, the lyrics are
provocative, and the energy is addictive. Listening to these reissues feels
like rediscovering an unfiltered corner of doom history, loud, low, and
lawless.
“Whore,” “(
( ( I ' M H E R O I N ) ) ),” and “Satan Sex Ceremonies” remain documents of a
band that embraced chaos as a creative tool. Their reappearance on Heavy Psych Sounds brings back that filthy pulse
to a new audience ready to worship at the altar of distortion.
Score: 7.0
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