doom

“Lords of the Flame,” which opens Huata’s sophomore Atavist of Mann, boasts a corpse-painted black metal band in stoner metal clothing, and this is a good thing. Riding a psychedelic bass gallop, the French quartet propel the similarly vibed “Operation Misteltoe” through a fuzz-out haze. The album then begins a shift, opening up into a more doom  blackened atmosphere, and