Here's an album that flew under my radar from earlier this year. Holy Shit this is an amazing album! Combining the right amounts of Sludge, Doom and Drone, "Second Sight" from Foehammer is a behemoth of an album. This shit is meant to be cranked at the fullest volume, so that the low and slow riffs can reverberate against your bones the way Doom Metal is meant to be played. Out of the four tracks, not one of them is under 7 minutes, so you definitely get enough time bask in its radiant misery. As toasty as these riffs might be, there's still this sense of dreariness that casts its shadow over every song. The music is fiery, but it is also very ugly in a gratifying way.
The fucking string section on this album is just monstrous. Like two looming pillars of nothing but Sludge and Fuzz. It's just a downpour of constant heaviness, and it's super fucking slow. Combined with the pummeling of the drums, and the death growls of the vocals, the impact is monumental. "Second Sight" is an agonizingly brutal release, that has crawled its way up in Sisyphean fashion, to the top of my best of the year list. I'm glad I didn't go throughout the whole year not listening to this album, because I would've been missing out on a truly great album. Highly Recommended! Cheers! -Samir
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