The album showcases the particulars of the Yellow Eyes style, including the way they take the majestic, mournful sound generally found in the Cascadian subgenre, and turn it inside out so that it becomes a ravaging sickness worming its way through your brain.
My initial impression is that the albums falls somewhere between the beauty and grandeur of Celestial Lineage and the harsh aggression of Two Hunters.
Patience now becomes the Virtue. You are involved.
It has that crusty, old death metal, mean sound.
Groovy riffs and hooks and a barrage of drum lines force you to head bang, along with plenty of solos to melt your face as well.
…one imagines guitar players, bass players, and drummers learning the complex passages almost as exercises in technique.
Really good grooves and chunky bass and guitar riffs. Just genuinely a fun album.
With this album you’ll get all three of those demos and their cover of Alice Cooper’s “Billion Dollar Babies”.
Put on your warm sweater. Climb into the fishing boat. Hope you don’t meet the menace.
Purtenance provide a clinic on meat and potatoes death metal.