
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Cicada the Burrower – Herald Of Lions
if you love exploration in music, different artistic expressions, strange genre blends, and various other avant garde approaches, then this is a must listen.
if you love exploration in music, different artistic expressions, strange genre blends, and various other avant garde approaches, then this is a must listen.
Drenched in bloody violence, with horror infused pain dripping from musical wounds, Let Us Pray is a tour de force of emotional riffs, attacking rhythms, unsettling dynamics, and terrifying vocal delivery.
This one feels off-kilter, like it’s always about to tip over and crush the listener.
…the band I most think of in comparison to Barrel Bones is one of my favorites, namely The Gaslight Anthem.
The groove entrances you, even as instruments are added, key changes happen, and the vocals embed themselves into your brainstem.
If I were to have more children (I’m not), bits of the album would probably be embedded in their DNA.
Basically take parts of those two bands, a little hardcore, a little jazz, the dissonant sensibilities of Diskord or Replicant and you might be in the right wheelhouse.
Death metal with a grindy sound, but not the grind speed. Nasty riffs that I’m pretty sure could actually cut you if you listen too closely. A nice mid-paced groove that gets the ole noggin’ banging. What’s not to like?