"Carvings in the Door," an eight and a half
minute guitar-drenched instrumental journey through the sturm-und-drang-iest
territory imaginable, alternates between doom and speed metal during its long
passage. It's a perfect introduction to The
Moon Lit Our Path and completely prepares you for the next forty-five
minutes.
Churning out guitars and keyboards like a predator,
Ryan Wenzel and his drummer/partner Rich Corle put the "heavy" in
heavy metal. These five tunes all clock
in at epic lengths, generally in the eight to twelve minute range, feeding and
abusing every metal-guzzling cell in your brain. If more black and death metal bands followed
this approach and left the incoherent vocals behind, focusing solely on the
music, the world would be a better place.
Each track, while sounding quite similar, features
its own little moments of uniqueness and awesome moments of originality. The speed metal portions of
"Carvings..." do not appear again, while three-fourths of the way
through the twelve minute saga that is "Descending Into The
Labyrinth" the electric axe attack mellows for several minutes while an
acoustic guitar is allowed time to paint its own pastoral idyll, before the
song descends back into the crunch and grind.
Without being assaulted or distracted by vocals and
lyrics, there's not much else to say
except "Buy This Album!" If
you enjoy metal in any of its modern iterations, this is beyond cool.
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