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Burden Man / OTHRS - Grievance

 

Australia, split album, pummeling black metal, dark folk passages, general malaise. I like it!

Two Australian projects come together to make a slab of weird darkened music reminiscent of what might happen if Tombs covered a Steve von Till solo album.

OTHRS:
Hailed most notably through the dark metal time scapes of SPIRE, M.R, the initiating conjuror of that entity, presents us here with the second chapter of OTHRS, showcasing his unique blend of atmospheric black metal and mist ridden dark rock featuring vocals from V.S (Spire, Void Stare) and a cover of Horseback's "Invisible Mountain".

Burden Man:
"Grievance has been an experiment. An experiment in taking this band from a solo project only to a collective. It has helped open up the doors on Burden Man's creativity and has begun the process of utilizing both Blaize and John's pain, not just mine. What has come from that for these two songs is less sorrow and a more despairing anger while still retaining our softer side. The themes throughout happened to match up with the compositions of OTHRS and we couldn't be more pleased in sharing this release with them." 

 

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