Dirt Forge - Soothsayer (2017)
Hailing from Denmark, Dirt Forge are a
fresh new band making their debut with this album, packing a solid
forty-five minutes of sludgy doom metal (including a three-part title
track) into the spaces of Soothsayer.
There's some upbeat aspects to the music, mainly in the hooky
melodies that are threaded throughout most of the songs, but on the
whole, the music comes out swinging low and hard, with the vocalist's
growls nicely complementing the snarling guitar and head-bash
drumming.
By the
time the band hits their second track, “Fortress Burning”,
they're well in swing with the beats and grooves, with the thrashing
and chord-clawing fitting together in a nasty mash which hints at
some death metal fondness in the members' tastes. It's not
high-flown metal; there's few trips through complicated time
signature switch-ups or multi-part arpeggio solos. But the meathead
vibe works well with the brutal flavor of the music, and there's more
than enough unexpected inclusions to make clear that there's
intelligence behind the slamming. As the trek continues, lyrics of
death and despair filling it out, there's a firm sense of the
affection this band has for the music and its history, and their
homage pays off with some tasty riffs and hellacious howling. Check
it out if you've been hungering for some mean metal with a low-end
emphasis, and keep an ear out for more to come from these Denmark
doomsters.
~
Gabriel
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Fans Of; Black Anvil, Noothgrush, Oak, The Scimitar, Wizard Smoke
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