CODEX SERAFINI - MOTHER, GIVE YOUR CHILDREN SANITY
Codex Serafini’s second album Mother, Give Your Children Sanity builds on the stylistic foundations of debut The Imprecation of Anima while allowing new variations in tone and accessibility. The saxophone blasts of opener ‘Pitying Them for Giving Life’ immediately bring 70s space rock progenitors like Hawkwind and Gong to mind, but within a context brought up to date with elements from contemporary experimental metal. The mythic portends and ritualistic atmosphere of Belgian doom outfit Wyatt E. or New York’s blackened psych jazz-metal fusioneers Imperial Triumphant suggest parallels for Codex Serafini’s surreal heaviness. According to the band statement: “ This album grew from our shared, deep connection to one another and reflects both the power of nature and the struggles we all experience as human beings on this planet.” Lyrics have become progressively discernable since the group’s 2021 EP Invisible Landscape . The female lead singer (as anonymous as the other members o...