WARKRIME
Get Loose
(No Way)

AMORPHIS
Silent Waters
(Nuclear Blast)

GODHEADSCOPE
A City Out of Sight
(God is Myth)

TUSK
The Resisting Dreamer
(Tortuga)

HYPNOS 69/MONKEY 3
Split
(Rock n Roll Radio)

GENOCIDE
Apocalyptic Visions 

(Van)

HAVOC UNIT
h.IV+

(Vendlus)

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Some people have serious doubts as to whether we can tag all these new wave of drone bands as musical. Without falling into all that questioning; just because it is atonal and for the most part lacks rhythms and melodies doesn’t mean it can’t grant and even demand repeated spins.  For some it’s the stuff for masochists; for others just pretentious blocks of white and black noise, a mere excuse to sound more artistic than you are able with your guitar strapped on. Senseless absurdity made sound.  Whatever; A City Out of Sight could be tagged as all of those or neither of those, and it would still be a damn fine recording. “Room of Light” for instance does justice to its name. It wails like a mad mastodon and grows lighter and dimmer throughout its ten delicious minutes.

Godheadscope is the work of Matt Rosin (for the purpose of this recording he is presented as M. Kolophonium) who also plays in his own very own Cindervoice and in the Polish black metal band Dead Raven Choir. Now, I haven’t heard that band, but now I am dying to. A City Out of Sight is simply that intriguing of an album. More importantly, throughout its extensive drones, and layers of sound, semi-angelic voices and dead sentence lyrics there is real work here. Thought and sweat made into functional noise. Extremities, torso and head; these are all fully-growned and well-developed in any of the four tracks presented here. “Joy/Grime” even has some pretty piano played psychedelic drench of sound. A City Out of Sight is a solid record all around, that basically proves that the mixture of drone, noise and ambience doesn’t have to be all that abstract.

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