As if illustrating their own sonic DNA, while maintaining a musical “rule of thirds”, The Saturn III has issued another arrangement of a classic (albeit “deep”) cut in their field. It should have been obvious that our fresh-faced space trio might reference their namesake, but what’s interesting is that they’ve actually cross-referenced two mediums, bridging a gap between what is arguably Fu Manchu’s most atmospheric banger and the B-movie flop by which it was likely inspired.
From their previous work, it’s apparent that the Saturn III aren’t content to merely “cover” great work verbatim, instead preferring to appropriate a source as if it were their own. By shifting sections like a melodic slide-puzzle and re-purposing rhythms for dynamic effect, they’ve successfully achieved an amalgam of their fuzzy three-part formula — One part Doom, another part Desert Rock and finally, Psychedelia — into a theme of sorts for their unique brand of noise.
