Having risked becoming the forgotten sons of modern American metal by disappearing for five years, A Life Once Lost need to make a splash with the follow-up to the criminally overlooked Iron Gag.
Ecstatic Trance represents a complete abandonment of the swampy groove of its predecessor and a move into fearlessly distinctive territory that combines a partial return to the polyrhythmic fury of 2003’s A Great Artist via a grim, subtly psychedelic and unexpected post-punk sensibility.
Guitarist Douglas Sabolick has outdone himself. These are songs underpinned by grotesque, churning riffs that churn and grind as vocalist Robert Meadows throws his scarred, throat-splitting barbs. At their most immediate with the pulverising opener Something Awful and the lurching Madness Is God, wickedly abstruse with the nihilistic edginess of Miracle Worker and darkly dramatic with the metronomic Vacuum Form, the Philadelphians have dared to think outside the usual metal box and ended up sounding both wildly original and obscenely exciting.
Valoraciones
No hay valoraciones aún.