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7.5
- Band:
Tithe - Duration: 00:35:03
- Available since: 19/09/2025
- Label:
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Profound Lore
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With “Communion in Anguish” continues the descent of the US Tithe in misery, in despair and in a sound universe with a dirty and multifaceted cut, two years after the previous “Inverse Rapture”.
A return, that of the Portland band, not characterized by who knows what evolutionary tension or desire for renewal, but rather by the desire to insist on a speech that in a short time (the debut album “Penance” dates back to 2020) allowed her to enter the graces of a label such as the Profound Lore, a real totem of the contemporary underground whose support – we can say – continues to be justified by the quality of the quality. from the trio to his songs.
Episodes that, specifically, do not mention to differ from a gloomy, march, nihilistic poetics, reiterating the process of fusion of black/death elements, grind and slut of the previous chapters for such a monochromatic experience – with black pitch to prevail over any other shade – as dynamic from the point of view of internal development, to try again in the cure in the intertwining of the skein and in the definition of the A sound as fluid and incisive as possible.
Not a pot-proter of designer ideas, let alone one of those monolithic blocks where, in the name of heaviness and suffocating atmospheres, the broth is elongated and the compromised attention, but a tracklist that-again-tip to the jugular without getting lost in bullshit or in infinite repetitions, playing as a drier and more compact version of people who are now unavailable on the disc. Dragged Into Sunlight.
Not surprisingly, everything lasts just over half an hour, as if there was no time to waste in the spiritual and body apocalypse invoked by the group, with every riff to stand out by definition – also in the context of a logically dirty sound yield – and to stuck in a vigorous and precise way in the flesh of the listener, indulging a rhythmic incede that, apparently rough, knows how to be actually functional and attentive of the album.
A ups and downs that, inaugurated by the most brutal piece of the collection (“Nostrum”), advances by previding a jagged construction in which the band's various souls exalt and interpenetrate each other, and during which the band becomes the spokesperson for an approach to extreme 'hybrid' but very concrete metal, between Ulthar, primitive man and Graves.
In short, although ours have reappeared on the market in relatively short times, and although from a point of view of the structure and the content “Communion …” sounds almost like the twin of “reverse …”, it cannot be said that their rebounded to the door is of the superfluous ones or that they give bnar, rather confirming their ability to move with ease in the most negative and miserable ravines of our favorite music.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
