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Black Rainbows are the Rome trio that helped define European stoner-psych: Gabriele Fiori (the same guy who founded Heavy Psych Sounds back in 2011) on guitar and vocals, with the rhythm section laying down that fuzzed-out churn. Fifteen-plus years in, they pull from the holy lineage, MC5, Blue Cheer, Hawkwind, Sabbath, Kyuss, Fu Manchu, and bend it into something heavier and weirder. Superskull from 2023 is their ninth or so LP, twelve tracks of guitar-forward riff worship cut by Fabio Sforza, with cover art from Brazilian artist Pedro Correa.
We are pressing this one as a Levitation Edition. No festival history to point to here, just a record we believe in enough to put our name on the wax: Color in Color plus Splatter, an LP limited to 200.
What gets us is how Superskull refuses to sit still. The riffs hit like a brick to the chest, exactly what you want from this band, but Fiori keeps cracking the windows open. A spacey acoustic interlude breaks the haze, then The Pilgrim Son stretches out into a long psychedelic suite that earns every minute. There is a melodic, genuinely trippy ballad in here too, which is the kind of move only a band this deep in their catalog can pull off without losing the thread.
Honest gripe: twelve tracks is a lot, and the back half could lose a cut or two without anyone missing it. The detours are the album's best ideas and also the spots where focus drifts. But that ambition is the whole point.
This is a band that knows exactly what they are and still keeps reaching, and that is precisely why it earns the pressing. Color in Color plus Splatter, 200 copies, the kind of slab you cue up loud and let run. If you live in this scene, you already know. If you do not, start here.
Recommended if you like: Bongzilla, Acid Mothers Temple, Kadavar.
