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Syncolima - Where The End Meets The Beginning

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Syncolima formed only in February 2021. Out of the ashes of an old band, Stoff (bass) and Gazz (drums) enlisted Josh Morgan - who played in the recently-on-hiatus Supersonic Death Monkey - to round off a hard n' heavy stoner rock outfit. Syncolima's influences lie with Black Sabbath, of course, as every stoner band does, but also very clearly with grunge acts like Alice in Chains, more so in Syncolima than in Stoff and Gazz's previous work together. There's a bit of Metallica-style aggression, a bit of Eastern-tinged psychedelia, all collected together in a melting pot of attitude, fuzz and beards. Recorded at Arch Studios in Nottinghamshire, Where The End Meets The Beginning came together in the space of only four months. Whoever is to stumble across this record would surely be very excited that this is, indeed, only the beginning... A calm, clean, jangly guitar riff introduces 'Into the Sun' before the band break into a hard-hitting groove that prompts the lis