The album opens up with “Like Embers” which has one of those Neurosis type riffs that you will stay going around in your head for a few days. It then builds and builds into an unrelenting Sepultura-esque ditty, but then turns back into that sense of decay again with the opening riff. Certainly a real impressive introduction to ‘Inhumanform’. Every subsequent song after offers something that is unique onto itself. By the time you get to the track “Black Rain” it opens with a real rocking High On Fire type rhythm. But again takes a different path and changes tempo completely. It should be mentioned that the album was mastered by Brad Boatright (From Ashes Rise) who has in the past mastered High On Fire, Sleep, Tragedy etc.
Age Of Woe have great independent ethics and have toured through ‘Rise! Bookings‘ so have played many DIY venues. Being autonomous does not bring in money, hence so many bands end up recording in cheap as chips type recording studios. But they recorded at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Where in the past Led Zeppelin, Rammstein, Entombed etc have recorded, so you know the band have pumped every cent/krona they have into this recording. The result of course is a very highly polished production that will last the test of time.
They of course a band that you could not pigeonhole. They have a hardcore metal sound that is full of high tension and ominously dark, but not forced. The album has that modern crushing brutal heaviness that a lot metal hardcore bands try so hard to achieve. But the difference is Age of Woe aren’t trying, it just flows. It would be nice if the more mainstream hardcore bands had this kind of essence. Hardcore music needs a strong backbone. At times it’s like Entombed, some other times Sepultura. The final track ‘A Rite Of Passage’ is a great sludgy dirge finish.
‘Inhumanform’ will be released on May 31, 2013. The LP will be released on Suicide Records and will be on white vinyl and the CD will be released on Give Praise Records.
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May 22, 2013 at 12:23 pm
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Maria Isabel Contreras Vilches
April 20, 2013 at 5:28 am
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