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6.5
- Band:
Guiltless - Duration: 00:42:35
- Available from: 7/03/2024
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Neurot Recordings
Neurot Recordings continues to cradle the young virgults of extreme music among its tentacles, and this time it is up to Guiltless, a project that sees Josh Graham and Dan Hawkins engaged among others, already associates in the Storm of Light (a band in the stand-by record since 2018).
Compared to the group of origin, the Guiltlesss limit the melodic sorties that animated albums such as “Anthroscene” to the maximum, replacing the influences of the Killing Joke an intransigent industrial metal that runs along dreamed tracks and then built by Godflesh, Primo Author and Punisher, The Body (for the oppressive mood of the pieces), Severs and Corrections House (the latter worldwide of every dark temptation).
The result is certainly impressive, if we consider exclusively the sound violence put in place by the quartet, and largely the merit goes to the rhythmic section Billy Graves (drums) and Sacha Dunable (bass, the latter permanent member of the Intronuts). From this point of view, the disc obviously sounds attractive for lovers of the genre, thanks to the claustrophobic anger that permeates every song.
Inside the ladder stand out “Lone Blue Vale” whose cataclysmal incede post-metal incendes that recalls the heavy step of the Australians Halo (of which we feel to recommend at least “body of light”) stumbles in a syncopated rhythm, the incipit “Into the dust beacoming”, with its unscathed screams and the tribal drumming that brings back to the songwriting. of the Uniform, and “Landscape of Thorns”, where the industrial roots of the group are more evident.
To be honest, however, not the whole album proves to be up to the previous songs, and sometimes a sense of tiredness or at least of a job (“in A Starless Reign”, “Our Serpent in Circle”, the same title-track): this feeling, this, this, that the beautiful texts are not enough, to dissipate.
Fortunately, the album shows here and there thick from which to filter, if you do not revive light, at least convincing variations on the theme, such as the hallucinated atmosphere that pervades “Enlightenment” (of which new noise-rock levers such as the batteries should be fairs), or “One is Two”, certainly linked to the apocalyptic sound of the owners of the neurosis label.
“Teeth to Sky” is therefore an angry and technically flawless debut, which however would require a richer writing in shades to emerge definitively in a currently rather (perhaps too) music scene crowded and competitive.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
