Order of the Underground

        The luminous haze of the desert horizon's sun-drenched dawn swells. A shimmering wave of hallucinatory colors begin to ebb like a refractive jewel. Soon, a strange, panoramic sea of kaleidoscopic patterns accumulates across the rising expanse. Chapel Perilous is born. These mind-expanding forces collide in the form of a symphonic shamanic ritual by Milwaukee's own Calliope . The vision quest begins with Victor Buell IV's lucid, lysergic guitar tones woven throughout Al Kraemer's vintage Farfisa combo organ, heavily reminiscent of Syd Barret-era Floyd at its trance-inducing roots. The opener even picks up where the Barret-era left off: in a further-down-the-rabbit-hole force, channeling a slower, heavier Astronomy Domine . Chapel Perilous carefully expands its songs until their "peak," with the raw, fuzz-pedal-driven energies once pioneered by space rock godfathers Hawkwind, and continue to mount in a culmination of otherworldly, anti-matter cacoph