Review-Longheads-Layers of Wax-OHMs Peak

Released: 2024

Genre: Heavy psych

Sounds Like: The Heads, King Gizzard,

Homeland: London, UK

What makes Layers of Wax elite and sit atop OHMs Peak?

Layers of Wax is a psychedelic masterpiece with 8 tracks of mind-bending intensity.
The vocals are remote and have just the right amount of echo, enhancing the sense of psychedelic heaviness.
Amidst all the heavy laced fuzz, the track "Layers of Wax" introduces some perfectly timed thrash; it's incredible. And the lead into "Wax All Encompassing" is flawless.

Track Listing:

Witches Stash 7:18
Deathcap Farmer (Part One) 1:40
Deathcap Farmer (Part Two) 4:08
Deathcap Farmer (Part Three) 6:43
Heavy Token 5:56
Layers Of Wax 4:10
Wax All Encompassing 3:44
Mouth Of Fire 8:10

Dive deeper into Layers of Wax with our Q&A with Singer/Bassist Sam from Longheads.

OHMs Peak: Layers of Wax Is a game- changing addition to your library. While we are huge fans of ‘Mars…’ this album takes a wild turn into darker concepts. Take us through the change in landscapes and what makes this album different.

Longheads: Think this one has been stewing over the years, all of us have dabbled in playing in heavier bands before & for all of us, metal was our first musical love. Being exposed In a live setting to some of the greats Electric Wizard, Bong Ripper, Conan, Osees, Warthog back in 2022 really got us pumped to dial in more fuzz & overdrive with our tones.

OHMs Peak: Would love to understand more by what is meant by 'Deathcap Farmer’. How did this three-part be meandering brilliance come about?

Longheads: 'Death Cap Farmer' was originally just Pt2 for a while in till we took it to the stage where we use to add a structured jam either side of it. After we finalised the Pt2 it really felt like it was missing the intro (pt.1) & outro (pt.3) for the album so we decided to add it in. The full suite was meant to have

OHMs Peak: What non-psychedelic or non-progressive band would you love to tour with? The old opposites attract or extreme contrast attraction.

Longheads: I really had to think hard about a band I liked that didn’t have hints of psychedelia involved in some way.

I’d have us open up the night

The Hives supporting

Motörhead Main support

Paul Simon to head line

Jose Gonzales to serenade us to sleep back at the hotel

OHMs Peak: Your album artwork always pulls us in. Who put together this beautiful piece of gold and purple and how does it tie in to the wax theme?

Longheads: I came across Dirk Robertsons work through his comedian sister’s

Marjolein Robertson Instagram page. She shared a piece of his work and from there, digged through the rest of his collection and really rated his portfolio. Most of his pieces if not all of them are painted onto a0 canvas so once I found that out I was instantly hooked. I loved the way he managed to get the colours to pop and create such depth with in the compositions. Every element in the album cover is a reference to the songs with in the album. It was an idea of ours and dirks artistic wizardry made it happen.

OHMs Peak: ‘Mouth of Fire’ is an absolutely amazing closer. So incredibly thick with doom and darkness.. do you anticipate continuing down this doomy blissful path or is your next release? Will you take another turn to different angles? Is putting out a diversified library of importance to you?

Longheads: We’re working on some new material as we speak, I don’t want to give away too much but we’re definitely turning everything up for sure, more energy, tighter rhythms, lots more melody. I think we definitely have more strings to our bow and we really want to be able to show case that with in our musical output.

OHMs Peak: How did the name Longheads come to form and what’s the meaning/background?

Longheads: A Longhead is some one who is slow or takes a long time to do anything or make a choice. This was definitely us in the earlier stages of the band so it just seemed fitting to name the band after what we called each other on a daily basis. Our songs are also mostly long haha.

OHMs Peak: Any tour plans to come play in the US? What is your favorite venue of all time?

Longheads: We can’t wait untill we hit the states but unfortunately nothing in the works so far! Our favourite gig to date was our most recent gig at Helgis in London. Everything went back to basics as had no sound engineer & no microphones on any of the backline so it was pure unadulterated backline sound. Had a lot of comments after the gig saying that’s the best they’ve heard us.

OHMs Peak: Longheads is stranded on an island with only a solar powered turn table and majestic powered solar blue tooth speakers. The band collectively can only choose one album. Which album to you agree to?

Longheads: Back in Black - AC/DC a regular album in rotation in the tour van.

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