Woe - Withdrawal (iTunes Version)
The acoustic guitar introduction to “All Bridges Burned” lasts just long enough for you to anticipate the addition of wintry synthesizers and ghastly field recordings. After all, the first 13 minutes of Withdrawal, the excellent new album by Brooklyn-via-Philadelphia black metal quartet Woe, are a torrent of animosity and unrest, with little relief intended or available. Opener “This is the End of the Story” is a six-minute span of negativity, every bit as dense as its title suggests. Its chaser, “Carried by Waves to Remorseless Shores of the Truth”, might be a stronger swill still, especially with frontman Chris Grigg groaning at the beginning as though he’s actually been washed to the wrong side of the Styx. This is battering and unfettered stuff, so it would seem logical for Woe to reveal a rest area. They do, but it lasts only as long as those 25 seconds of gentle, dulcet picking. Rather than indulge in atmosphere like many of their more ornate USBM peers, Woe simply counts off the beat and rips into a blitz once again. Call it a feint, a bait-and-switch or a tease if you must; just try and avoid whiplash if you can.
Most of Withdrawal flashes by with that same sense of determination, as though Woe are incapable of slowing down, of letting their fury smolder just long enough to glimpse it from above. Neither Grigg nor second guitarist Ben Brand take excessive solos, while the rhythm section of drummer Ruston Grosse and bassist Grzesiek Czapla stays decidedly on task, embedding their intricacies deep within these seven surges rather than apart from them. Perhaps that marked urgency is due to the feeling that Woe has to make up some time.
Genres: Metal, Music, Rock
Released: Apr 23, 2013
℗ 2013 Tanglade Ltd.
Tracklist
1 This Is the End Story
2 Carried By Waves To Remorseless Shores of the Truth
3 All Bridges Burned
4 Ceaseless Jaws
5 Song of My Undoing
6 Exhausted
7 Withdrawal
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