![]() IX’s greatest flaw was the inconsistent vocal production, and I hoped that reuniting with longtime vocalist Pepper Keenan would help fix that, even though I was unsure about how the band would function with a second guitarist again. Their last two records succinctly combined their early punk metal days with the Sabbath worship of later releases, possessing fire, heaviness, and variety when many late-career metal releases have to sacrifice one or more of those qualities. Ĭorrosion of Conformity – NO CROSS NO CROWNįavorite Tracks: “Cast the First Stone,” “Old Disaster,” “E.L.M.,” “A Quest to Believe (A Call to the Void)”įew artists have done as good a job consolidating their long, complicated histories as Southern metal icons Corrosion of Conformity. While the lyrics can be meek, the delivery of them is bold: “ What the words that I said were / You gotta give or you gotta go” the band repeat in jagged unison on closer “An Athema” before finally concluding “ I CLAIM IT ALL!” Closer’s debut is aplomb in its uncertainty, and its all the better for it. And while those ideas are filled with anxieties and searching, there’s a confidence to them both in delivery and in content that is deeply refreshing. Closer’s intensity and flowery prose invite comparisons to Meredith Graves’s former band Perfect Pussy, and while the songwriting reads more stream-of-consciousness and anecdotal than Graves’s, there’s something deeply satisfying about the brevity with which the band communicates cutting and brilliant ideas. ![]() ALL THIS WILL BE is unrelenting, each track folding itself into the next with lyrics that read like slow motion poetry playing out in a warzone. It takes three seconds of “Gift Shop” before singer Ryann Slauson’s handedly takes that cue, proceeding to strain and overextend her very being for the rest of the album. The meandering void that Closer’s opening track, “–,” represents is ALL THIS WILL BE’s only moment of tranquility, and even that minute-long introduction feels like a crawling march towards inevitable fury, begging for someone to scream into it. We’re here to tell you what’s hot and what’s not in this week’s music roundupįavorite Tracks: “Hardly Art,” “Dust,” “An Anthema”
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