Release
date: April 2018 Label: Self Released. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Through
The Void – Tracklisting
Crushed
Beneath The Tide
Adrift
Through
The Void
A
Distant Shore
Members
Scott-
Guitars/Vocals
Gaz - Bass/Vocals
Gazz - Guitars
Ben - Drums
Review
I
must have started to write this review then delete it all just to
start again at least four or five times now.
I'm
obviously no journalist, I'm just a chap who is lucky enough to be
able to hear some of the best new heavy music that gets released year
after year and all I have to do in return is to put into words what I
thought of it.
Easy
right?
Wrong....
Especially
when you have bands like Garganjua releasing records like their
phenomenal new album "Through The Void"
I'm
lucky enough to be able to consider them friends and we have shared a
stage together a few times now and they're all too humble when we
tell them how good they are to actually listen to us. I'm pretty
confident in saying that after the release of "Through The Void"
they're going to have to start listening to an awful lot of people
telling them much the same.
Garganjua
have managed to release a frankly breath taking, mature, emotional
and completely captivating record that in places is reminiscent of
Pallbearer, Yob and Ahab. It's like being drawn into the sea by its
beauty and then before you know it it's pulled you in and swept you
away without a trace.
There
are four tracks on offer here, but don't think you're being short
changed as each and every track is pretty much a masterpiece in its
own right. The perfect blend of clean heartfelt and low rumbling
vocals, huge riffs that ebb and flow like the tide and a rhythm
section that drives the chaos beautifully.
Standout
tracks for me being the immense "Crushed Beneath The Tide"
and the title track itself. The former being the album opener and
being blessed with a riff that has no right to have that amount of
swagger and groove on a doom record and the latter is now available
as a video the band released as a thank you for hitting their Pledge Music target to get the vinyl release this album so richly needs.
I
strongly suggest you click on the following link and go and listen to
it now...
"Through
The Void" is nothing short of a magnificent release and the band
should be proud of what they're about to unleash on the world. Their
Pledge campaign may have hit its goal but there is still time to add
your name to the list and make sure you secure a copy of what's going
to be one of the essential doom records of the year.
Words
by Simon Williams
Through
The Void will be released via their Pledge Music Campaign here in April
2018.
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