Origin:	Norway
Genres:	Doom Metal

Sahg

Sahg is one of those side project bands that seem to be sprouting up quite frequently these days, featuring in this case guys with pedigrees in bands such as Gorgoroth, Månegarm, and Audrey Horne. Noting that those three bands sound nothing like each other, it so happens that Sahg doesn't sound like any of the three either. Their 2006 debut, simply entitled I, is a groovy, almost uptempo doom album, verging on stoner rock at times though mostly a shade darker than that tag would imply. Vocalist Olav Iversen often comes off as a young Ozzy, at times infusing a bit of Dave Wyndorf (Monster Magnet) influence as well. As with other projects of this nature, one has to wonder whether the members have time to devote to something other than their main job (Tom Cato Visnes, in particular, must never sleep at night, as he recorded no less than four albums in 2006), but to these ears Sahg deserves major attention -- I is an excellent modern rock/doom metal album.