Comparisons to Poison The Well, Killswitch Engage and "golden era Trustkill Records" according to NOECHO. Your Spirit Dies are a band who play metalcore with an edge.
Their inspirations are a broad as At The Gates, Godflesh and of course Killswitch Engage, meaning that their metalcore style has industrial energy and technicality in the melodies. A track such as Shrouded In Silence builds with some climbing clean guitars that are opposed by the breakdown crush as thing quickly descends into shifting heavy riffs on the thrashy Ritual Sacrament.
The band are metalcore veterans but also delve into the the world of horror with the psychological weirdness of the Giallo genre filtering through the whole record. There's a melting pot of influences on this record the early 2000's style strong on the crushing but melodic A Rose For Every Stone and In The Depths Of Grief which was written about Brandon Byars mother.
Your Spirit Dies bring in some help on couple of tracks too Dan Weyandt of Zap on Serpentine, Blaythe Steuer of straight edge hardcore crew No Cure comes on the punishing A Snow In Summer while Night Pierces My Bones enters the progressive realms with Carson Pace of The Callous Daoboys.
Metallic metalcore with menace, Your Spirit Dies deliver a strong debut on My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest. 7/10
Tribunal - In Penitence And Ruin (20 Buck Spin)
Tribunal are band who play gothic doom, compared to bands like Blood Ceremony, Draconian and My Dying Bride, they are a band who languish in the maudlin and forlorn.
Playing music that is wrought with emotion and introspection, much of this coming from Soren Mourne's haunting mournful delivery. Etienne Flinn and Jessica Yang are the guitarists here crafting the slow moving riffs of this record. Slow moving, heavily distorted doom riffs from that creep on tracks such as Incarnadine where those wailing cleans are countered by Etienne's harsh metal roars.
The band have recently become a five piece adding Jessica on guitar for a bigger and more expressive guitar sound, as rhythms can continue in earnest, locked in with bassist Soren and new drummer Julia Geaman so the leads can uplift the mood with some melodic release. Speaking of melodic release Dallas Alice's keys are used brilliantly on the record, underlining there heaviness with melancholy in union with Soren's cello, as Ruin, which is a cello and piano leads into the The Penitent.
This album is a concept record around justice and guilt but there's is nothing to feel guilty about here just classically-tinged gothic doom. 8/10
Growing Horns - The Essence Of Suffering (Self-Released)
Belgian heavy riffs as Growing Horns drag you through the swamp again on The Essence Of Suffering. Drain swirling guttural vocals snarl on this full length increasing the vitriol from their 2019 EP, the bubbling poisonous stew of sludge, doom and stoner, hits harder on this album.
They don't just worship the riff on this record, they approach it with cult-like reverence, creating an altar of sonic suffering on Blood In The Water, building on throbbing extremity as they lean on the NOLA sounds of Crowbar and Eyehategod. They keep their music to steady, solid movements on this record be it the Sabbath-like doom of Cutthroat Democrisy using widdly leads while Umbilical Noose (A Tale Of Wrath) finishes off this slab of sludge with some groove.
Do Growing Horns do anything that will change the world? No. But they do it very loudly! 7/10
Dead Vessels - Wholesale For The End Times (Self Released)
From the home of heavy metal, Birmingham, England Dead Vessels are a raging trio of heavies from The Midlands. Wholesale For The End Times is by the bands own admission (sarcastically of course) sloppily played, lazily recorded and procrastinated over excessively.
A seven track offering of aggression, where the riffs are abrasive, the vocals aggressive and the production capturing the rawness of this auditory bad acid trip. Nihilistic and snide in their lyrics, Dead Vessels realise we're in end times and rather than celebrate let's commiserate and punish others with music.
Music that isn't hospitable and welcoming but antagonistic on Worthless And Multiplying, bruising and bullish on Everything Is Burning Everything Is Fine, while A Reconciling Difference is hallucinogenic and worrying. Woozy, heavy, angry, a myriad of emotions put through fuzz and distortion. These Dead Vessels still twitch with life. 7/10
Growing Horns - The Essence Of Suffering (Self-Released)
Belgian heavy riffs as Growing Horns drag you through the swamp again on The Essence Of Suffering. Drain swirling guttural vocals snarl on this full length increasing the vitriol from their 2019 EP, the bubbling poisonous stew of sludge, doom and stoner, hits harder on this album.
They don't just worship the riff on this record, they approach it with cult-like reverence, creating an altar of sonic suffering on Blood In The Water, building on throbbing extremity as they lean on the NOLA sounds of Crowbar and Eyehategod. They keep their music to steady, solid movements on this record be it the Sabbath-like doom of Cutthroat Democrisy using widdly leads while Umbilical Noose (A Tale Of Wrath) finishes off this slab of sludge with some groove.
Do Growing Horns do anything that will change the world? No. But they do it very loudly! 7/10
Dead Vessels - Wholesale For The End Times (Self Released)
From the home of heavy metal, Birmingham, England Dead Vessels are a raging trio of heavies from The Midlands. Wholesale For The End Times is by the bands own admission (sarcastically of course) sloppily played, lazily recorded and procrastinated over excessively.
A seven track offering of aggression, where the riffs are abrasive, the vocals aggressive and the production capturing the rawness of this auditory bad acid trip. Nihilistic and snide in their lyrics, Dead Vessels realise we're in end times and rather than celebrate let's commiserate and punish others with music.
Music that isn't hospitable and welcoming but antagonistic on Worthless And Multiplying, bruising and bullish on Everything Is Burning Everything Is Fine, while A Reconciling Difference is hallucinogenic and worrying. Woozy, heavy, angry, a myriad of emotions put through fuzz and distortion. These Dead Vessels still twitch with life. 7/10
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