Perdurance - Convulsing
Perdurance - Convulsing
Two metal albums in a week? Not something I usually do.
I’ve made it clear on this blog that I don't recommend a metal album lightly. I think that a level of caution is appropriate when you’re dealing with a genre this intense, dark, and willfully unpleasant. The fact is: not everyone’s a fan. And if everyone suddenly was a fan, the genre would have to move to an even more extreme place in order to maintain its overarching ethos.
That said, sometimes I come across something that’s doing something very interesting within the negative emotional space that the genre occupies. And I figure that a complete musical diet should contain all of the extremes of human emotion.
Convulsing is the work of one man. Every instrument on this record was played by Brendan Sloan in his home. Every word is written by him, and sung by him. It’s not something you often see in metal. It’s one hell of a feat.
As far as the sound of this record, the label I’ve seen most often attached to it is technical death metal, which is accurate. But progressive black metal applies just as well. And there’s also touches of folk metal here?
It’s a varied and deeply engaging labour of love. And it ends on a more positive note than I think I’ve ever heard from death metal. That the bleakness and brutality of the world can be endured with love by your side.
Streaming below via Bandcamp.
Highlights: Pentarch • Gossamer Pall • Endurance
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