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Dark Is Who Dark Things Do
IGNOMINY Review + Stream

It’s time to share one of my favorite unsigned bands from Sweden – IGNOMINY. I reviewed their first demo last year, music that totally blew my mind, but now it’s time to tell the world about their six song album sampler, Dark is who dark things Do. I’m so fucking impressed at how much this band has grown in such a short timespan – their writing skills are even more complex and mind-bending. Trying to put labels on IGNOMINY would be as hard as finishing your favorite puzzle with some of the pieces missing. More than just how they sound, it’s about how their music makes you feel and the kinds of thought start to form in your mind as you listen to this record. The first song on the sampler, “The Great Devouring Rot,” is fucking apocalyptic blues at it’s extreme best! IGNOMINY takes thick, dense, pulsating anguish and wraps it around an intense emotional dirge that reeks of filthy passion. They play slow-moving riffs that evoke a sense of loss when you hear them, and the vocals are bleeding out of the singer’s mouth and into your brain. There is not one moment on this record when the band isn’t willing to take chances with what they are creating. At times, when I listen to Dark is who dark things Do, it starts to think that Radiohead and EYEHATEGOD got together to create a bastard child called IGNOMINY. Which brings me to their second song, “Bastard Sons,” that has an awesome drum beat that gets all up in your good thoughts, but it’s the cyco delivery of the singer that gives you chills. IGNOMINY’s music is full of epic amounts of real emotion, and you can’t help but feel that shit deep down in your soul. The last song, “Smoking Piles,” is an 11-minute monster of noise destruction and creation all at the same time. IGNOMINY know how to manifest melody in the weirdest places, that’s why their songs never fucking get boring! We have a job to do at CVLT Nation, and that’s to turn people on to the raddest music in the universe, and with this review, I know we are doing our goddamn job right! To all labels: this band needs a home, now do your job and fucking sign them!