I was curious to hear this band knowing that they were from the doom genre and with an album titled Cauldron Of Witchery I figured I couldn’t go wrong. The band known as THE LAMP OF THOTH comes to us from the land of gloom and doom known as the United Kingdom. With a demo surfacing in 2006, this band is fairly so new that the sludge hasn’t had time to sink in yet. With a woman behind the drums known as Lady Pentagram, Randy Reaper on guitars and The Overtly Melancholic Lord Strange on bass and vocals, can this band join the ranks of doom gods Pentagram or Candlemass? Cauldron Of Witchery, the five track EP can answer that question.

Starting out with a strong and powerful doom riff, I am suddenly struck by the vocals of Lord Strange. Sounding like a combination of Bobby Liebling and Danzig I can’t decide if his vocals help or demise the band. They take some time getting used to as the last two live songs go on, they get overtly annoying. The vocals sound better on the studio versions than on the live tracks. The heaviness of the rhythm section and the guitars are quite a plus for this band. The lyrical concept of this EP is very occult oriented, naming one of their songs after the classic 1975 horror movie Blood On Satan’s Claw. Two of the five songs were recorded live and you can hear the audience among the music, though the quality of the recording is good both studio and live. Sounding heavily influenced by Pentagram and not quite as heavy as Electric Wizard, but somewhere in-between. This band has potential to become doom masters.