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Friday, April 3, 2015

Minsk "The Crash & the Draw"


Country: USA
Genre(s)Sludge, Post Metal
LabelRelapse Records
FormatCD, vinyl, digital
Release dateApril 3, 2015 (GER/BEN/FIN), April 6, 2015 (ROW), April 7, 2015 (USA)
Tracklist
  1. To The Initiate 12:42
  2. Within And Without 07:57
  3. Onward Procession I. These Longest Of Days 05:53
  4. Onward Procession II. The Soil Calls 06:19
  5. Onward Procession III. The Blue Hour 04:42
  6. Onward Procession IV. Return, The Heir 04:11
  7. Conjunction 04:53
  8. The Way Is Through 09:23
  9. To You There Is No End 02:48
  10. To The Garish Remembrance Of Failure 06:22
  11. When The Walls Fell 10:26
Line-up
Aaron Austin
Christopher Bennett
Zachary Livingston
Timothy Mead
Kevin Rendleman

Description/Reviews
While most of their contemporaries push sludge into a more psychedelic, experimental realm, Minsk have chosen to keep things heavy as a really heavy thing on The Crash  & The Draw. There are still recognizable -post elements all over the album, but this is, first and foremost, heavy metal. The opening track, "To the Initiate," immediately dispels any doubt that the band had lost their step or mellowed in any way as the ambient keyboards that open the track are quickly swept aside in favor of a wall of pummeling guitars. There are a handful of gentler tracks to be found, such as "Onward Procession III: The Blue Hour" and "To You There Is No End," but even in its quiet moments, there's an undercurrent of simmering rage to The Crash & The Draw. The atmosphere is so oppressive, in fact, that even the post-rock elements sound forlorn rather than uplifting or pastoral.
 Read the full review by Shayne Mathis at metalinjection.net

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