Like a Robert E. Howard novel through an Orange amp stack, Eerie slays snow beasts and evil wizards with the almighty riff. The bicoastal project seems to draw inspiration from guitarist Tim Lehi’s gruesome, EC Comics-esque cover. On “Master of Creation” and “Yeti,” he and bassist Dave Sweetapple (Witch, Sweet Apple) ladle psychedelic doom prog like an oil spill over a seagull. Meanwhile, Shane Baker (Alaric) wails like Eric Wagner if Trouble had been obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft instead of the Bible. Sharing its moniker with a Seventies horror comic, Eerie casts unself-conscious spells effectively.

***.5

This article appears in August 19 • 2016.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.