Akuma - For The Beloved Bones (2014)
The new album from Akuma is a swampy
blast of murky aggression, high-speed and high-impact drums, growling
guitar, and mighty bass. The tunes unfold with a pace like
quicksand, pulling you deeper and deeper along for the ride until you
can barely breathe, and just at the right moment, opening up into a
gaping expanse of overwhelming bass resonance and distant percussion.
This crew has a solid handle on what they want to accomplish with
their songs, and it's some mean, effective stuff.
They've got the
attitude of EyeHateGod (though with less of a drug fixation or
inclination towards hardcore), the bottom-of-a-swamp atmosphere of
Coffins, and they occasionally slip in a little black metal through a
sludgy mix of vocals, production, and mad-cap drumming. There are a
few moments where it seems like they've pulled off a capable
soundtrack to some liquid sub-section of Hell, but there's also times
where they ease up on the menace a bit, and just plow forward with
some stomping speed and rhythms into sheer head-banging territory.
More than capable of putting a smile on any deranged swamp-dweller's
face, For The Beloved Bones
is already well on its way to being recognized as a classic.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Open Tomb,
Noothgrush, Coffinworm, Grime, High On Fire
~
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