Rorcal’s new album may be called Silence… but what it supplies is anything but, as it dives deep into a tumultuous cavern of Blackened Doom Metal, which is ferocious in its delivery and bleak in its tone. The Swiss five-piece have been creating their dark fusion of blackened post-Metal since 2006 and Silence (Hummus Records) is their sixth full-length album.
Vexier, the sophomore full-length from Switzerland’s enigmatic post-metal / doomgaze / experimental rock outfit E-L-R (Prophecy Productions), is a record that takes its time to get where it needs to. The record features five tracks spanning a total of 45 minutes; the shortest song is more than six-and-a-half minutes.
With their fifth album, Swiss stoner troupe Monkey3 has endeavoured to create something both ambitious and monolithic. A 70-minute epic divided into four chapters, Astra Symmetry (Napalm Records) is, according to the PR fluff, “feeds its inspiration from the mapping of the stars and their symbolic associations, interpreting the constellations stranded over the dark sky.” Continue reading