Locked into a solid 70’s groove with healthy doses of jazz, 80’s metal, blues and prog, Doctor Cyclops add just enough of their own contemporary flavor to the vintage sound to build an unholy beast all their own. Deranged Sabbath worship, gnarly distorted guitars croaking and belching above swirling muted synth and organ sections, floating in the ether between the thundering of the bass and rattle of the machine gun precision drums, Doctor Cyclops are capable of meating out masterful doses of equal parts jazz, funk and metal all at the same time, tunes turning on themselves like cannibalistic snakes devouring their own tales. There’s a proud, majestic rabble to the music all their own, a self-confidence and intelligence that can’t be learned or taught, that has to be innate and intuitive.
While there might be a lot going on in the music as far as influences go, the band is a single-minded unit, operating in tandem through seamless genre changes, breaks, tempo changes and seemingly effortless pitfall stops. Joining forces with the world-famous World In Sound Records Doctor Cyclops has released two full-length nuggets of amazing on the world in the form of 2012’s Borgofondo and 2014’s Oscuropasso, the latter being one of the coolest albums I’ve heard in a good while simultaneously summoning equal parts Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Dust. With so many people obsessed with sounding like they just fell out of 1969 it’s refreshing to hear a band that truly takes whatever they want from the bountiful musical heritage that we’ve collectively inherited and move on, make something interesting, unique and completely their own. Doctor Cyclops sounds free. Free from classification, free from genres and labels, free to do what they do best, make good music. From: https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2014/07/doctor-cyclops-interview-with-christian.html
