Gone Is Gone – Gone Is Gone

Gone Is Gone – Gone Is Gone

Released July 8th, 2016

Gone Is Gone is the first release by the “supergroup” of the same name. Gone Is Gone unites members of Mastodon (Bassist-singer Troy Sanders), Queens of the Stone Age ( guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen), the recently reunited At the Drive-In (drummer Tony Hajjar), and multi-instrumentalist Mike Zarin. The eight tracks clock in at about 31 minutes but feels longer as they take you through a trip of muddy somber and somewhat psychedelic hard rock numbers. The sludgy sweltering distortion is reminiscent of early Sound Garden. The ballad-ish “Starlight” will delight 90s era goth kids. While overall it’s all stuff we’ve heard before, it is done well. The band’s debut EP carves out its own compelling radio rock combining Queens’ scorched stoner-metal squall, Mastodon’s prog-metal bombast and ATDI’s post-hardcore.

4 out of 5 stars