Bellrope – You Must Relax

Jordan Jerabek
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“You must relax.” It’s the kind of instruction that strives to inspire comfort and ease. But… it’s just not quite the best way to go about it, right? Demanding it? C’mon now, that’s something that’s really onl... Read More...

DIRGE – Lost Empyrean

Jordan Jerabek
Reviews
For fans of post-anything metal, there was a turning point where we came to dismiss instant gratification. The point where we came to fall in love with the longform sonic journey, the gradual and subtle expanse of musical ideas, or the entrancing (and at times physical) nature of cascading, droning riffing and phantasmal leadwork. Bigger than that, it’s where we abandoned immediacy in exchange for the ambient, the psychedelic, the densely layered, or the ruminating.