Thursday, 13 June 2024

VOIDOZER - Silence Is Great (Single Review)


Release Date: June 2024. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

Silence Is Great: Tracklisting

Silence Is Great


Band Members


Nicolas - vocals

Stéphane - Bass

Florian - Drums

Matthieu - Guitars


Review


Silence Is Great is the debut single from Post-Doom/Post-Sludge collective VOIDOZER with the band focusing on building Progressive sounding melodies and rhythms which has a sense of resemblance to bands such as Monolord, Mastodon, CONAN, Windhand and Crowbar. The track takes its time building into a heavy sludge fuelled charge with ice cold vocals from Nicolas allowing a dramatic atmospheric flow to settle down.


The song lasts for over twelve minutes and VOIDOZER show echoes of Post-Punk influence before exploding into harsh growls and subtle down-tuned sludgy guitars. The Post-Doom aspect of the track is amped up for more dramatic levels before the band returns to their melodic Psychedelic and Post-Punk inspired creative charge.


The sound is aggressively raw and quite powerful at the same time with the mean sounding bass from Stéphane being one of my favourite aspects for the whole track. The bass lines are meaty and thick which propels the song to the heavier grooves to appear which is where Florian and Matthieu impress the most on Drums and Guitar duties respectively.


Silence Is Great stands out from the crowd with its poetic use of multi-layered vocals and emotionally charged lyrics which all builds upto a hugely exciting finish when a “LOUD WALL OF NOISE” is delivered within the final few moments of the track.


SIlence Is Great is a first rate debut single from VOIDOZER and I’m genuinely looking forward seeing what the guys have in store for us on their debut release.


Words by Steve Howe


Thanks to Voidozer for all of the info.
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