The Seattle instrumental trio Giza are marshaling the forces of doom for a stellar, new 5-song digital release I am the ocean, I am the sea, due out officially on April 29th via their Bandcamp page. Guitarist Richard Burkett and bassist Steve Becker added local drummer Justin Rodda (Serial Hawk) into the fold last summer, and as the band explained recently via their Facebook page, “Justin’s drumming has taken GIZA and our apocalyptic psychedelic instrumental sludge metal into new and uncharted territory.” Indeed, and yet, while “Interplanetary Cyclone” is massive and pummeling, there is still something that feels disciplined and balanced in Giza’s brand of doom, centering it around their acutely interconnected sonic explorations of excess and restraint. Recorded by Matt Bayles at his Red Room studios, he assists in this by giving the album an arid, desert-like atmosphere to exist in; and that means on a track like “Interplanetary Cyclone”, Giza’s thundering simooms of low-end, cut thru by Richard Burkett’s incendiary guitar lines, is capable of stoking wild fires, leaving only scorched and charred timbre in it’s wake. If you live in the Northwest you can catch Giza live in Tacoma at Bob’s Java Jive on Saturday May 17th!
