Review : TOMBS – “Winter Hours”

Tombs – “Winter Hours”
released February 10, 2009 on Relapse

This is the album you’d want to create if you dropped acid while standing on a frozen lake and stared at the sun until your eyes burned black. Frenetic tremolo picking and blast beats imported from corpse-painted inhabitants of Norwegian fjords coexist comfortably with the post-hardcore elements of American bands like Isis, and a certain kindred spirit in the psychedelic sludge of Seattle’s Lesbian.  This Brooklyn trio is a formidable new force in Relapse’s roster with this impressive full length debut that also boasts mastering by Alan Douches and artwork by Thomas Hooper.  5 is a mellow instrumental.

FCC OK
Try 1, 2, 3, 7, 8

01. Gossamer
02. Golden Eyes
03. Beneath The Toxic Jungle
04. The Great Silence
05. Story Of A Room
06. The Divide
07. Merrimack
08. Filled With Secrets
09. Seven Stars The Angel Of Death
10. Old Dominion

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~ Matt Longo