May 30, 2019

Aseethe review - drone metal with hardcore roots

The Quietus prefers avantguard electro and hip hop, and modern metal. Aseethe is the letter. 'Throes' is third album by doom/drone metalers from Iowa, and that geography you can hear on the album - "there are more than a few moments here that call to mind this indelible memory of the plains: extended drone passages that seem to quiver with unstable energy; sudden, crushing structural shifts like thunder; vocal outbursts that crack through the band's carefully cultivated gloom like lightning".