In some ways this is the album I wished Amenra had released last year instead to the overly atmospheric one we got instead. This album not only features members of Amera, but drummer Igor Cavelera of Sepultura fame and Neurosis' Scott Kelly. The only problem is while the massive apocalypse of sound they churn up is quite impressive with the industrial strength of its crushing throb, the sheer weight of heaviness that possesses the first two songs makes them sound somewhat similar. the main difference being the second song has more of an overt industrial feel to it. It is way heavier than anything Neurosis has really done in the past ten years. Sonically it paints the perfect picture for the demise of the current world. Eventually the second song does go float off into a more Amenra like atmosphere with spoken word. It works much better here than on their last album.
"Sarin" has a more menacing lumber that reminds me more of Neurosis meets "Filth Pig" era Ministry. The vocals are by far the most aggressive element on this album and more growled that what we have heard from Neurosis. The industrial feel still casts its aura over the song. The vocals have a more rhythmic cadence to them, to help break things up from the first two songs. You get two and a half minutes into "the Acres, the Ache" before it kicks into its reluctant roar. There is a weird ambient buzz that haunts the backdrop of this song. It ends up drifting into a more post rock section with sung vocals that are more fragile in their melody.
There is a darker pound to the more droning " Half Rising Man". It much like the bulk of these songs falls somewhere on the more industrial side of sludge. Do they sometimes focus more on a sound rather than songs in the conventional definition of what a song is? Sure, but when the sound you are focusing on is a deep in it's end times darkness as what is going down here, I have a little more wiggle room. Overall this album surprised me , I will give it a 9.5.
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