MOUNTAIN CALLER

Proof that when you have riffs this good, you don’t always needs words

RIFFS SPEAK LOUDER than words. Demonstrating this fact with spellbinding verve, London’s Mountain Caller have just released a debut album that tells a vivid, fascinating story while being almost entirely instrumental and bulging with colossal riffs. A dazzling blend of doom, post-metal and atmospheric rock, The Truthseeker is already picking up frothing plaudits from all corners of the heavy spectrum.

“Music is magic and everyone experiences it in different ways”, says guitarist Claire Simson. “When you’re able to fully immerse yourself in an instrumental piece, it’s very powerful. Good instrumental music should make you feel like you’ve been on a journey. We started with no concrete intentions with regards to what we wanted to sound like, so seeing this band evolve has been thrilling and rewarding.”

The Truthseeker tells the tale of a female protagonist who wakes amid the rubble of a destroyed city and sets off on “an Odyssean journey to find her memories and her voice”. Despite the stripped-down nature of Mountain Caller’s three-piece line-up, it’s a beautifully evocative and cinematic record, written from a perspective that still remains a rarity in our world.

“This is an allegorical tale that makes a nod to an ancient narrative and then blows it apart as something new,” says Claire. “The world needs more storytelling from the perspectives of women. There is so much still unsaid. Half the world has yet to speak.”