"Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit-to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."-Alan Watts (1915-1973).......... Unification. Organism and Environment, Art and Science, Metal and Nature.
With a psychadelic rush like that of their hallucinegetic namesake, Lysergic have begun to re-unify these inseperable concepts, all the while maintaining a compelling groove. Whether thundering through crushing riffs like a 40 tonne tank through peak hour traffic or trickling along melodies cascading from within, Lysergic approach their music with an irrepressable momentum.........With Roots radiating from the rainforests of Kuranda far north Queensland, Tasmania and Kilcoy on the Sunshine Coast hinterlands, it is from this upbringing amongst nature that the band draws the bulk of its inspiration......so prepare yourselves for this Lysergic trip that wil expand your mind, dilate your pupils and make you wanna wear a hat made of foil, smear yourself in garbage and try to cross the freeway........
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Rave Magazine's Review of our Self Titled EP available nowLYSERGIC – Lysergic
Wednesday, 11 February 2009(Independent)Everything is relative.From the opening Man O’ War-worthy scream of “RIDE!†it’s obvious that Lysergic’s EP is going to be more of an angry-day soundtrack than a tea-and-crumpets piece. Like good old Fear Factory though, they deliberately contrast the growling-and-howling with sweeter, pitchier vocals on some of the choruses and intros. Amusingly, on Parallel Universes the softer vox deliver lines like “Every time I see you / just want to rip your fucking face offâ€, while the Cookie Monster growl is saved for “The world is beautiful and life is plentiful / My transmissions are clear, the cup is half fulâ€l. Naming themselves for the L in LSD is apt, not only for Lysergic’s occasional acidhead prog moments, like the burst of folky acoustic guitar and didgeridoo, but also for their lyrical references to polymers, Erwin Schrödinger, alternate realities and other subjects of stoner-science fascination. Along with an emphasis on the chugga-chugga over the deedly-deedly, that brings to mind Canberran’s Alchemist, and the fact they don’t suffer too harshly in the comparison is high praise.JODY MACGREGOR
