MERDARAHTA - As The Dark Clouds Swept Away We Could See The Sunset
May 12, 2015, 8 years ago
(Noise Salvation)
Considering how brief this album is (30 minutes), it's amazing that the band, which features Topon Das of Canuck freaky-grinders Fuck The Facts, manages to spend so much time fucking around (there's not even any actual music until the five-minute mark). But they still make their point on fantastic songs like the crushing "The Dark Clouds", which makes me think of Isis or Sumac or any number of heavy Hydra Head Records sludge/hardcore bands, or, better yet, the very well done and quite unexpected closer "Poverty Will Spread", which goes past the doom, noise, and sludge that the band gets you used to and into some delicate (brace yourself) metalgaze (sorry) turf, the song showing a shocking amount of depth and emotion.
I could live without the meandering noise parts, although "Illusion" is an example of dissonance that actually sounds great. Lots of ground covered here in a deceptive amount of time: when this one ends, it feels like it's been playing for two hours. And I think that's a good thing.
