Gonna abandon that special character right quick. [Not if I can help it. ~Roldy] I don’t know about you, but when I hear that an album is themed and structured around the concept of the 7 chakras, I expect something in the stoner or drone realm at best and generic metal propped up by far-Eastern musical tropes at worst. I’m happy to report that neither is the case with Kundalini Rising, the debut album by San Francisco’s Mæntra. Instead, they play the kind of extremely burly technical death metal you might expect if I’d led with the fact that the … Continue reading Album Premiere: Mæntra – Kundalini Rising