Probably due in large part to their home base of Moscow, stoner metal quartet Montezuma’s Revenge have stayed largely under the radar throughout their 15 years of existence. Their recently-released third album, S.W.I.M., is a high-quality collection of fuzzed-out, meandering sludge songs that would be at home on a playlist between Sleep, Mastodon and even Alice in Chains. Today, Montezuma’s Revenge share the video for album opener “Soyux-111 (Terrore Su Venere).”
The song shares a title with a 1960 German-Polish sci-fi movie based on a novel called The Dead Planet, with the video being spliced together from various Soviet film archives from the ’50s and 70s. It’s an interesting video to go alongside the instrumental stoner track and a refreshing change of pace from the expected stoner/sludge video tropes using psychedelia and clips from live shows.
Check out the video for “Soyuk-111” below and head over to the Montezuma’s Revenge Bandcamp to hear the rest of the album, out now on DTH Records.
