NOCTURNAL FEAR
Code of Violence
(Moribund)

JAVELINA
S/T
(Translation Loss)

MERCILESS DEATH
Realm of Terror
(Heavy Artillery)

PHARMACOPOEIA
Volume 1
(Land o'Smiles)

THE SEVEN MILE
JOURNEY
The Metamorphorsis Project
(Fono'gram)

INSTANT ASSHOLE
Straight Edge Future

(Tankcrimes)

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND
Pigdaddy 

(Cold Spring)

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How did I know that this band would be playing post-rock even before I popped this baby in? I don’t have hyper kinetic powers. No sir. As a matter of fact, I am kind of blind and usually too distracted to notice obvious things like whether dawn is dusk or dusk is dawn.  But I could tell The Seven Mile Journey was heading the exact way it did just by looking at the black-heavy cover and their enigmatic moniker. What I couldn’t presage was that I would actually enjoy The Metamorphosis Project as much as I did. Frankly, this is one of the prettiest records I’ve heard in a while. I still have some reservations about it though.

So to start off with a bit of history, this band has been jamming together in one form or another since 1995, but only came into its own as The Seven Mile Journey in 1999. Besides one self-titled demo they have one album released in 2006 titled The Journey Studies.  Here is where my reservations start, and the first one has nothing to do with the band; my doubts will from now on be arised upon my reception of any post rock record. It’s just too good of timing. Everyone claims to have been around since like Slint started fucking around with textures and I just can’t believe everyone. Anyway, my reservations don’t stop there.

The thing is I enjoy what this Danish quartet is doing. It’s pretty. Morning pretty. Your insides pretty. Your head on a downward spiral pretty. It patiently builds for like forever. Or whatever the length of this recording is. It’s got a shiny aura that makes you thing of vast horizons and frosty lakes and deep forests. There are some good textures that could go well with whatever introspections you are digging this week. Its well-developed crescendos in all of the ambitiously titled songs (“A Sanctuary for Lugubrious Tracy”, “January 4^th – The Hypothesis Hours”, and all the others), go on for the length of the album. And yet, I am not annoyed. Which is to this band’s credit. It’s all perfectly played and perfectly matched to the very organic and good low bottom end sound. It does take a little too long to amount to anything. Like it isn’t until the third song “Identity Journals (anonymous)” that these Nordjyjllanders decide to rock out a bit, so do they have to make us wait that long? Maybe that’s kind of the point.

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