I can ‘t speak for everyone, but I know that I dig soul music, no matter what the genre is, it must have soul. What I’m trying to say is that I want to hear honesty & I want the music to make me feel some kind of emotion, or maybe that what I’m listening to can act as some sort of time machine that transports my thoughts to a new mental space. Then there is music that has been able to uplift my broken dreams from this cesspool of reality called life, and paint my grey skies with brighter shades of grey. A band that has the power to change the way I feel when I listen to them is Woods of Desolation – their album Torn Beyond Reason, out now via Northern-Silence, is just full of awesome black magic. You know labeling music is a very tricky thing, because you you might see a band being labeled something, & you might get put off or expect something different then what the band delivers. Well Woods of Desolation is called Depressive Black Metal, which does not make any sense to me, because this band’s music really injects my spirit with a strong belief in self, plus these are the kind of sounds I want to hear while navigating through this society constructed of lies! Black lights of hope shine off of every song on Torn Beyond Reason. When songs like “The Inevitable End” are blasting out of your speakers, there is no way that you will be able to avoid the thoughts running through your brain, saying the the world is mine & nothing or no one can stop me from achieving what I want to. The songwriting on this epic album is fucking spot on, it’s so rad to hear so much epic melody on every tune, but at no time does it ever seem cheesy. Part of Woods of Desolation’s secret when it come to the way that they use melody is they dip it into huge barrels of real honest emotion, which keeps every tone or beat that this band creates legit. “Darker Days” is sick as fuck – it starts off with a rad guitar riff, before being swept off into a vortex percussive rhythm. I’m also really impressed with the vocal range of the singer, who can go from a cold, shrill scream to an ethereal, passionate whisper. That brings me to this point: many of the songs on Torn Beyond Reason have this cold ancient feeling to them, but for some reason they also make me think of the summer. Woods of Desolation is a perfect example that from the darkness comes the light!
Woods of Desolation : The Inevitable End
Woods of Desolation : Darker Days
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