When Sean CVLT asked me to review Ecocide’s new album ‘When Will It End’, I was about to decline. As I’d heard a song of theirs before sometime back and didn’t get into it, so I assumed I didn’t like them. So I have a rule when it comes to reviewing, which is I only review bands I like. As I don’t see the point in putting energy into slating a release by a band after them putting all their heart, money, time and effort into releasing. But before I emailed Sean back I said I’d give it a listen to it streamed on CVLT. This is when I was stopped in my tracks. I don’t know what I had heard before, but this is not what I was expecting at all. I really love this and am kicking myself I’d just so utterly dismissed them.
And of course worst of all they are now broken up, so no more. This release is the grand finale of Ecocide. The band broke up in August of 2011, but played six shows throughout Texas in December for the build up to this release. Tofu Carnage Records are releasing this on February 1st, 2013. It will be a limited pressing of 250 on bone, olive green haze coloured vinyl with a gatefold jacket designed by Halie Koehler.
Ecocide have that decent mixture of dirty sludge riffs and desolate atmosphere that gives a feeling of doom and a grim barren earth. To draw a comparison, I think of bands like Agrimonia and at times Dead To A Dying World. The combination of violin with everything really adds to the real epic type build ups throughout. Vocalist Heidi has great black metal styled vocals which at times go into gruff growls. And at times they make the hairs on the back of your neck stick up, eerie.
The four tracks on this flow perfectly into one another creating a real landscape of despair. The violin on ‘Pain’ accompanied by bodhran style drumming gives a sense of something almost ancient or something lost in time. The last track of the album ‘Barren’ is funeral like in it’s sound, real impending doom. This is the sign of our inevitable destruction our ruination. Then towards the end a real Black Sabbath riff joins in with everything else. This track is something like Eyehategod would be damn proud of. I wish I’d copped on from the beginning just how good Ecocide were.
http://staging.cvltnation.com/ecocide-stream/
http://tofucarnage.com/
http://ecocide.bigcartel.com/
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