- Bronze Chariot's new album sees them lighten up a bit - yeah, right! The guitar might be slightly less fuzzy but they still come at you like a kodiak with a hangover. Slow but relentless their pulverising songs are given jagged teeth by Garret R. Cooper's sawmill of a voice. They're quite a lot like The Drones with a little more regimentation and a little less chaos, which in some ways make them the more punishing. Both bands have a taste for that gothic Australiana where drunks and gunslingers, beaten wives and morally bankrupt preachers meet their variously grizzly ends: a little blood to lubricate the axles of the Bronze Chariot. Nigredo, meaning in alchemy blackness and putrefication, or in psychologiy the dark night of the soul, here personified as a dark traveller, he brings ruination to all those he meets. A perfect songwriter for this band, I think.