The best part of when a sub-genre enters it’s “Post-” era is the collision of sounds that seem impossible to merge. Like falling statues that form anew, something very beautiful arises from the collapse. Sun Devoured Earth is a post-black metal band, part of the emerging shoegaze/black metal scene. In fact I’m sure there will be rampant arguments that this bear’s absolutely no resemblance to Black Metal and that’s quite a good thing. It broods and careens and smashes the wheels that so many decide to reinvent. Personally I’m sick of spinning wheels. Collapse after the fall.
Sun Devoured Earth – Life Is Poison
Sun Devoured Earth- Existence Is Only A Temporary Burden
Sun Devoured Earth is the work of one man, but listening to it you’d never know it. His sound emanates from the dark end of an alley, where no one goes, and the closer you move to it, the further it moves from you. It slips behind buildings and watches you from the trees. It illustrates the underlying fear that all you’ve ever done has been to no avail. It is morose and depressed but never contrived. The guitar cuts through like ghost hands, reaching and wrapping and taking you higher. The vocals shift between screams of grief and honest singing, with a timbre not unkin to Peter Murphy. Around every avenue is something new.
It’s not your typical Darkthrone riffs and Discharge fare. You’ll hear Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Death Cult, Faith-era Cure, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Sex Gang Children, Slowdive, and just about every other band you secretly pirouetted in your room to, and while there are spots of Von or Venom, it just feels incorrect to call this music Black Metal but I refuse to give in to semantics. What’s more, it’s hard to believe that this is all the work of one single man as the sound is so rich and deep. He puts all of his music up for free on his bandcamp so check em out!
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