Release Date: September 21st 2026. Record Label: Woven Eye Propaganda. Format: CD/DD
Resentment - Tracklist
1.Resentment 05:12
2.Resentment, Part 2 02:35
3.Spite 06:07
4.Ruin 04:30
5.Useful 07:02
6.Coherence 02:27
7.Spite (noise) 06:06
Review
Resentment is the fifth album from Drone/Doom/Noise Rock collective The Grey Men who follow a similar style of music by the likes of EARTH, SUNN 0))) and NADJA. The album is not a straight-forward record with The Grey Men constructing an abstract narrative and sandbox to create, develop and play their music. There’s harsh atmospherics with some unsettling industrial and electrical themes being used throughout as some parts of the album remind me of Aphex Twin in places.
The Grey Men at least play some “standard” musical notes on this record but they’re mostly played slowly and sometimes annoyingly they feel heavily out of place. However, this is still a fascinating and highly engaging listen with the songs all having a different tone, structure and musical delivery to each other. When the music does become more fascinated with Doom Metal and Drone Metal sounds, then there is a sense of haunting Industrial Metal themes dictating how the music grows into something more familiar whilst keeping that highly experimental sound.
The record works best when The Grey Men merge their experimental themes with a standard “riff-centric” message with the music still being Drone/Doom Metal obsessed. The intricate Post-Rock, Ambient Metal and Psych Metal soundscapes allow the violent vocals to remain cautiously lurking violently in the background. The album does have an eclectic soundtrack quality to it with gloomy synths and underused industrial themes transforming into a different style of extreme music.
The two main weapons of choice for The Grey Men to deliver their music is VOLUME and DISTORTION which they apply throughout this album. Some parts of the album do feel like SUNN 0))) performing with WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM which you’ll fully appreciate on tracks such as Resentment Part Two and Spite.
The Grey Men are wonderfully creative and brilliantly subversive with Resentment which perhaps leaves you more confused than entertained. However, this album is perhaps suited for long-time followers of Experimental Music with songs that don’t have a beginning, middle or end. I applaud The Grey Men for going down this route as the music is unbelievably harsh and superbly violent when you least expect this but one that also offers some blissful movements of distorted Post-Rock and Post-Metal.
Resentment is a great record and is a record that has real “CULT APPEAL” which always goes down a storm with the underground Doom/Drone Metal scene, If you’re in the mood for endless feedback loops, sonic distortion and amplified warfare being played when you least expect it then Resentment could actually be an exciting and thrilling prospect for folks to fully check out.
Words by Steve Howe
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