Release
date: August 5th 2017. Label: Self Released. Format: DD
Anchorite
– Tracklisting
1.Immurement 12:08
2.Anchorite 17:17
3.TerraΩSolis 08:31
4.Glimpsing Divinity
07:19
Members
Oli Foxen: Bass
Katya: Drums
Will Turner-Duffin:
Guitar, mixing, mastering.
David Hammonds:
Classical guitar, live guitar, photography and editing
Review
Warrior Pope's new EP –
Anchorite – is full of creative and heavy experimental drone/doomed
out sounds that brings back memories of BORIS on different parts of
the album. Warrior Pope fall mainly into the realm of
Post-Rock/Post-Metal with heavy outbursts of Experimental Doom Metal
and the first track Immurement does a great job in showing you that
the band don't play to any particular style of music. The production
is very lo-fi in parts but it shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of the
EP.
As the EP progresses, Warrior Pope
change their musical style and the overall feel of the music. With
second track Anchorite having a few moments where the mood changes
from Post-Rock to Post-Metal and then to heavier progressive
Doom/Drone Metal riffs. Anchorite is perhaps the standout track on
the EP as it's an epic 17 minute song where Warrior Pope create
distorted psychedelic riffs that has an ISIS (The
Band)/Neurosis/Pelican post-metal feel. During the middle of the song
Warrior Pope change musical style altogether and start adding glitch
based noises for a more electronic/experimental feel.
The final two songs TerraΩSolis and
Glimpsing Divinity carry on the experimental doomed out vibe. Warrior
Pope do struggle to keep the momentum going on these two tracks for a
few brief moments here and there. Though overall Anchorite is a
stunning and rousing success that will perhaps appeal to the more
Experimental Doom/Post-Rock/Post-Metal connoisseur than the casual
music fan.
Experimentation is the main key and
focus on Anchorite. As it's not your standard sounding
Doom/Post-Metal release. Warrior Pope deserve credit for thinking
outside the box and releasing something different. Overall, Anchorite is a superb release.
Lets see if the band can keep the momentum going on future releases.
Words by Steve
Howe
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