END OF LEVEL BOSS
Inside the Difference Engine
(Exile On Mainstream)

ISOLE
Bliss of Solitude
(Napalm)

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
& THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O
Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
(Ace Fu)

O'DEATH
Head Home
(Ernest Jenning)

TRAP THEM
Seance Prime
(Deathwish)

DYSRHYTHMIA/ROTHKO
Fractures 

(Acerbic Noise Development)

THE FIRE THE FLOOD
Truth Seekers

(No Sleep)

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This Rome based quintet has just unleashed an excellent record in the shape of Earthen. I could go for the cheapest angle, say it’s doom and get it over with, but I would be short changing Lento. As it sounds, Earthen deserves a lot better, a lot more, because obviously plenty of time went into making it. This is not really the layered work that most heavy post-rockers aspire to make every other week. Instead, Lento offers up a frontal dense three guitar attack that sounds massive in scope, radius and girth. And it is. Because of its ethereal flourishes (“Subterrestrial” and the cluttered “Currents”) Lento’s art falls within the post-rock field; sure there is plenty of ambience to it, but let’s not forget that it’s mostly created by guitars and that the rest is just sprinkled pepper.

But what is most engaging about it is how simple Earthen truly is. By saying this, I am by no means trying to diminish these Italian’s work; the riffs are direct and sluggish, they drag with them tons of debris, they are also concise slabs of zero fuckery. “Currents” for instance has the most minimal guitar riff put to tape (figuratively) since analog recordings went by the wayside. In it, the band swims against stream smartly balancing the organic humanity of the guitars with the escaping life sounds of all their technological artifices. Lento surely takes tips from everyone from Neurosis to Mogwai to Isis; and who are we to argue with heaviness made this pretty.

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