Review
Scott from Worm Gear reviewed our LP, here it is:
IL SANGUE - In Still Desolation
This is a three song 12" that comes with an 11x17 poster with the liner notes and such on it. "Suicide Chalice" consumes the A side with nearly 18 and a half minutes of bleak and stripped down aural pain. It's a curious mix that wavers between clean melody and buzzsaw dirge while the beat remains a trudging simple plod. The clean parts are largely bass melody and when the guitars come in they have a more Black Metal tone than a Doom tone, so rather than that thick, cathartic downbeat sigh you grow to expect from Doom changes there is instead the thin buzz that leaves you with the building tension. The track uses some various vocal effects and delays, some swirling ambient elements and has a mildly Swans influenced passage in the middle that gives it a more experimental quality at times as well. "Souls At Martyrdom" opens the second side at just over 11 minutes. Beginning as a dissonant dirge, and then peels back to a quiet melody before collapsing again into pain. The vocals as with the previous track, are a mix of spoken, and diseased snarls/shrieks, both of which work and fit well with where they are used. I like the deformed natured to the riffs in this track, it's simple, but has a lot of feeling and the guitar tone feels more appropriate. "Harrowing The Sacred" is the nearly 9 minute closer here. It begins with a clean melody and whispered vocal and them crashes down with the distortion. The melody is continued among the grimy guitars and shrieks and then disappears again to stillness. This juxtaposition is repeated with the heavy parts becoming more pained and abstract in their final appearance as the track ends. This is a solid release from a project I hadn't heard of before this, but will now be keeping an eye on. - Scott
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