Going Home from Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children of the Knight raises the bar on British doom metal. The title track from the power trio's second studio album opens with layered guitar tracks cranking out thick, fuzz-caked riffs over a deep rumbling rhythm. As the song takes listeners on a sonic journey that spans more than eight minutes, frontman Peter Holland doubles octaves in the vocal booth to sound like he’s sharing the mic with his inner demon. “Up the Stakes” ups the tempo with a stop-start intro that soon dissolves into a sludgy space-rock standout; it intersects Black Sabbath’s towering amp distortion with a Hawkwind-style blastoff into the sonic stratosphere. Anyone who plays extraordinarily loud guitar distortion will tell you how hard it is to translate that vision-blurring live experience to a recording, but “Go Outside” makes it sound easy. Over a bludgeoning tone nearly as powerful as Matt Pike's on Sleep’s Holy Mountain, Holland sings punchy verses and driving choruses. He dares to countrify doom metal with a Tony McPhee–style inflection in “Hillbilly Moonshine”