Release
date: June 16th 2017. Label: Metal Blade Records. Format:
CD/DD/Vinyl
The
Great Annihilation – Tracklisting
1.Black Sun Horizon
05:23
2.Cold 04:50
3.Old Wounds 03:40
4.November Wolves
06:22
5.Underneath 04:26
6.Way of the Storm
07:10
7.Shadows at the End
of the World 04:34
8.Walk with Me in
Nightmares 02:17
9.Saturnalian 03:08
10.Temple of Mars
06:47
Review
The bridge and tunnel
men are back to herd a compilation of creature like songs that
flourish in the sewer. ‘Tombs’ is a product of their environment
with a resiliency of same, true survivors with a story or maybe more
of a warning that builds on the bleak, calls attention to the languid
and stirs the omnipresent cauldron of our petty existence. The bulls
of ‘Brooklyn’, ‘Tombs’ are motivated with burning hearts of
ancient fire. Mike Hill deserves any and all of the blue and gold
adulation for propagating the colossal contradiction of life in the
‘Tombs’.
Black Sun Horizon- This is the consummate unswerving and persistent album opener, demonstrating a steadfast dedication to the speed and ferocity of metal.
Black Sun Horizon- This is the consummate unswerving and persistent album opener, demonstrating a steadfast dedication to the speed and ferocity of metal.
Cold-A dark and vicious
song assembled with distorted guitars, calculator drums and palpable
screams.
Old Wounds-Black iron
chugged through corrugated pipes, with a brief, yet terrific melodic
passage.
November Wolves is a
display of resonant crunch and partisan waveforms that register deep
within your pewter bones producing a dichotomous effect of the
harmonic and the growl.
Underneath-a monotone
vocal delivery supported by progressive bass, gauged guitar and
throbbing percussion. Teenage reminiscences with meat entrapped
tusks…think of a beloved “Joy Division’ tape, warped from
constant play and poor storage under the front seat of your mom’s
sedan.
Way Of The Strom-
momentary surreal technology segues into pandemonium as the machine
ignites, rips you apart and reassembles your enhanced version of
self.
Shadows at the End of
the World-tried and true university black metal.
Walk with Me in
Nightmares-The title alone is freezer chilling for this living world
and sums up the sound and resultant feeling of the song.
Saturnalian-A tribute
to American gothic metal, a middle aged punk in titanium.
Temple of Mars-The
ideal album closer prepared with a slow drone, atmospheric of
liquorish silver and a brutal crepitation avowing… ‘dark angel
rise’.
If you are a Tombs enthusiast, captivated by their gloomy style and charred by their past burnt album offerings, then “The Grand Annihilation” will substantiate your voracious addiction with no conceivable prospect of a future recovery. This is another huge album of sinister heaviness spawned by the prodigious band called “Tombs”.
If you are a Tombs enthusiast, captivated by their gloomy style and charred by their past burnt album offerings, then “The Grand Annihilation” will substantiate your voracious addiction with no conceivable prospect of a future recovery. This is another huge album of sinister heaviness spawned by the prodigious band called “Tombs”.
Words
by Nick Palmisano
Thanks to Andy at Metal Blade for the promo. The Grand Annihilation is available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl now from Metal Blade Records.
Thanks to Andy at Metal Blade for the promo. The Grand Annihilation is available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl now from Metal Blade Records.
