I might have got this review written a lot faster had I not had to lie down after about 30 seconds of the album starting. Heavy doesn’t cut it. Doomy barely scratches the surface. We’re in Sunn O))) territory here. Only with more treble. The guitars fizz and burn over the top of bass heavy enough to shift tectonic plates. Amidst the slow surge of noise – each chord hits like a tsunami – are vocal incantations, impenetrable wails that are directed toward neither heaven nor hell, but instead soundtrack some journey through purgatory.
When the guitars aren’t grinding molten lava and crashing so hard as to flay you alive, there are passages of ominous rumbling; too dark and weight to be ambient, they resemble the funnelling of a nuclear wind through subterranean caverns.
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When they do hit full-on rock mode, as on ‘Inversion’, it’s crushingly heavy; epic doom trudges with the gnarly production values of black metal. The result is hard-hitting, and seriously fucking nasty, and every bit as corrosive to the ears as the title suggests.
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