Echolot
Destrudo
Sixteentimes Music / Czar Of Crickets
The new album of Swiss Echolot is only 3 songs, but do not mind that, Destrudo is about 40 minutes long album.
Opening Frozen Dead Star song has a crushing guitar sound, which does not strikes me strictly as a metal composition, surely more like a experimental post doom metal. I think their music comes from psychedelic rock, the band doesn't play like a metal band, they just sound a bit like that. In the track, Echolot does not try to impress by music, because there are no hooks, no attempts to tie any melodies together, there is only a cosmic, terrifying movement of nothingness. In the beginning of song the band plays slowly, in the end, they build to the point that drive them to the musical apogee, as if it was a doomsday for the world, something yet final...
Vocals already have appeared in the first track, and this is the only element in the band's music that sounds the most metal-like. The vocalists, apart from a few successful attempts with clean singing, they mostly sound like singers of black / death metal bands, which helps them in search for the new worlds in music...
Orbital starts off more dynamically, a few faint instrumental melodies can be noticed in the song. The sound of the bass gives their music a proper depth, the clean vocals sound melodic, but there are also those harsher ones, more brutal. There is a bit of a heavy blues-guitar groove here, and calmer, psychedelic rock moments that also sound atmospheric, soothing. By the end, the music seems more disturbed by guitar distortions which lead to...
...Wind Up North, the longest, almost 20 minutes track. It starts very dense, doomy and it`s darker chapter of the album (I think T.G, Warrior could sign up for some of those guitar riffs). Vocalist follows this mood by giving his voice a dose of thrill, then, there is a very slow moment where I felt like my mind was descending into something dangerous...Super doomy! I`ve really liked it! Echolot continues to play slow, for some time without harsher distortions and vocals but the hypnotizing spell of music has already started to work on me...At this very moment, I am 100% into the atmosphere of this album... ...They come back to their post doom metal sound, but this time they sound heavier than ever, and the guitar riffs here just sound powerful and overwhelmingly good. Last minutes of the album are kind of ambient-cathedral. Band members play here only on syntchesizers, organ, with some programmed musical samples.
It`s best Echolot album to date.
Opening Frozen Dead Star song has a crushing guitar sound, which does not strikes me strictly as a metal composition, surely more like a experimental post doom metal. I think their music comes from psychedelic rock, the band doesn't play like a metal band, they just sound a bit like that. In the track, Echolot does not try to impress by music, because there are no hooks, no attempts to tie any melodies together, there is only a cosmic, terrifying movement of nothingness. In the beginning of song the band plays slowly, in the end, they build to the point that drive them to the musical apogee, as if it was a doomsday for the world, something yet final...
Vocals already have appeared in the first track, and this is the only element in the band's music that sounds the most metal-like. The vocalists, apart from a few successful attempts with clean singing, they mostly sound like singers of black / death metal bands, which helps them in search for the new worlds in music...
Orbital starts off more dynamically, a few faint instrumental melodies can be noticed in the song. The sound of the bass gives their music a proper depth, the clean vocals sound melodic, but there are also those harsher ones, more brutal. There is a bit of a heavy blues-guitar groove here, and calmer, psychedelic rock moments that also sound atmospheric, soothing. By the end, the music seems more disturbed by guitar distortions which lead to...
...Wind Up North, the longest, almost 20 minutes track. It starts very dense, doomy and it`s darker chapter of the album (I think T.G, Warrior could sign up for some of those guitar riffs). Vocalist follows this mood by giving his voice a dose of thrill, then, there is a very slow moment where I felt like my mind was descending into something dangerous...Super doomy! I`ve really liked it! Echolot continues to play slow, for some time without harsher distortions and vocals but the hypnotizing spell of music has already started to work on me...At this very moment, I am 100% into the atmosphere of this album... ...They come back to their post doom metal sound, but this time they sound heavier than ever, and the guitar riffs here just sound powerful and overwhelmingly good. Last minutes of the album are kind of ambient-cathedral. Band members play here only on syntchesizers, organ, with some programmed musical samples.
It`s best Echolot album to date.
Tracklist:
1. Frozen Dead Star
2. Orbital
3. Wind Up North
1. Frozen Dead Star
2. Orbital
3. Wind Up North
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 22.09.2020
Added: 22.09.2020
