Day: October 7, 2021

This is the album I first heard as samples through the band’s bandcamp page. I am beyond stoked that these wondrous sounds made it onto vinyl (as well as the band’s other two albums). I am not sure my mere words can do justice to the awesome sounds within these grooves. It’s a perfect balance between sometime delicate beautiful melodies with crushing djent riffage, and superb arrangements with really weird time signatures. The band have been around in different guises since 2006, but I have only been aware since 2015 when this album came to light. Ever present through everything is guitarist and vocalist, Asger Mygind, who in my mind is a genius. I think no one sounds like these guys, they make such a beautiful racket.

The opening track, The Same War, should have you drooling if you like technical Prog metal. The monster riff and groove have my brain scrambling to count the beat. The second track, The Stray Skies, has the most evil D-tuned riff known to man, but with such a delicate melody and chorus it’s a total contradiction that works so well. Owls is just nuts with the bass sound from the deep, and that manic melodic vocal over the top – it’s not like anything I have heard. Superb track! Perhaps the heaviest track in the record follows with Your Mind Is A Helpless Dreamer. The relentless deep heavy groove just pounds until a beautiful melody rises from the onslaught. This album is so good! This one definitely falls in the category of every home should have one.

10/10 from The Grooveman.