Mizmor & Hell – Alluvion

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• Band:
  Hell (USA) Mizmor
• Duration: 00:39:58
• Available since: 04/04/2025
• Label:

• Gilead Media

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Authoritative representatives of pain in music, Aln (Mizmor) and MSW (Hell) are tormented figures who in the exchange of ideas and in mutual collaboration have found a way to benefit each other's creativity. Live, one plays in the other group, thus leaving the dimension of one-man band characterizing both projects.
These two heroes of the stars and stripes underground now arrive at the inevitable: a collaborative album. In 2014 the two had already shared a publication, in a split that saw them protagonists with one track each. The collaborative album is a format already frequented in the past by Aln; With Andrew Black for the ethereal “dialectheia” and together with the Thou, in the notes “Myopia”. For MSW, it is the first time.
In having the name of their two main projects, ours do not go hunting for who knows what alchemies, and it would also be excessive to ask him. “Alluvion” presents two longer and more composite tracks – the initial “Begging to Be Lost” and the third “Pandemonium's Throat” – and two shorter and more unstructured episodes, “Vision I” and “Vision II”, respectively in the second and fourth position of the tracklist. A choice time, at least so we understand it, to partially alleviate the conspicuous loads of anguish of the two most breath songs.
The disc hangs stylistically on the Mizmor side, presenting itself more similar to the black/doom metal of the latter, while the shades of origin Hell are less flashy, although it is understood that “Begging to Be Lost” is more flour than the sack of Aln, and vice versa happens in the most sludge, ravine and swelling “Pandemonium's Throat”. In any case, we speak of visor 'regions' frequent entities that are not dissimilar, so we do not perceive such net detachments between the material designed by one and the other musician.
The fuzzoso sound full of reverberation makes us enter in a few bars of “Begging to Be Lost” on close coordinates, in fact, to the latest album signed Mizmor, “Prosaic”. Something grumpy, archive, rough, so exasperated in heaviness and guitar reverberation as to tend to records dear to the old Electric Wizard, those of the first two albums; Wish glimpses of black extremist crooning – on the other hand, are one of the most classy characteristics of Aln. Essential recollection spaces to give breath to music, the contrast between harsh hasty and a dimension resigned and defeated is probably the founding motif at the base of a similar album.
Effective the dualism of the singers, able to give a particular acretine to the compositions: he acutes the inner stress and brings out, with an increasingly evident sharpness with the passing of the minutes, a shabby melancholy. Typically black metal retracts, actually, there is a precise recall only in some trembling accelerations of “Pandemonium's Throat”, despite the harshness of sound, its grumpy and not at all finished being, it still refers to an aesthetic from primordial black metal.
“Alluvion”, overall it works: there are familiarity and 'flavor of the house', in these tracks. That said, to a brilliant and balanced initial trace between suffering and delicacy, with voids and full, noise and well -interspersed silences, follow three slightly more long and not so exciting traces. “Vision I” and “Vision II” give in to length, with a semblance in several points similar to that of an elongated intake, instead of a structured and complete passage. Finally, the unchanged range of “Pandemonium's Throat” is all too uniform in its reiterating feelings of existential disgust, ending up being pleasant but a little obvious in its stubborn rot.
“Alluvion” is not listening to a flat or disappointing, but Mizmor's records – above all – and Hell have been able to give us greater emotional impetus in the past. Promoted, but without hymns of Peana.