What drives what we do at CVLT Nation is good fucking music. We refuse to write about music we don’t like, and use negativity to crush people’s dreams. After doing this zine for a couple of years, I have to respect certain humans’ creative output, and I know when they send in tunes I will more than likely be into them. One such person is Ryan from ENDLESS DISEASE, The Hollow Void and now Tethered To A Dying Animal. This new record, Impermanent, will be on my end of the year list without a doubt, because almost nothing else has touched it so far. Tethered To A Dying Animal is out of the box Doom//Sludge that speaks with the tongue of Grunge bleeding out the death juice of some shoegaze shit. The humans creating these songs know how to guide their influences in directions that have never been followed before. When you hear the despair-filled baselines in “The Day I Gave Up,” you start to feel a cancer eating away at your emotions. Then the vocals kick in, and a morbid sense of hope kicks in, and you start to feel there might still be a reason for living. Tethered To A Dying Animal is as heavy as a blanket of cement dipped in steel, but it also has the melodic magic of My Bloody Valentine. When you hear the vocals on “Car Crash,” you will say to yourself, unholy fuck, I really fucking dig this band. Tethered To A Dying Animal makes the kind of music that makes this site what is it! Within the ugliest sonic shit storm, there is beauty of a fucked up kind. Listening to this EP makes me dream of having a record label that releases music like Tethered To A Dying Animal, and one day I hope this will be reality! In the meantime, check out the stream of Tethered To A Dying Animal’s EP Impermanent below…If any fellow bloggers are reading this spread the word about this sick ass band!…This review was written by the force of Tethered To A Dying Animal, and these four songs inspired every word!
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