TAINT
Secrets and Lies
(Candlelight)

RIP KC
Spinguolf
(Alone / Influx)

CLERIC
Cumberbund
(Sound Devastation)

ZODIAK
Sermons
(Translation Loss)

ACHENAR
All Will Change
(Earthen)

HELRUNAR
Baldr Ok Iss 

(Lupus Lounge)

YOG
Years of Nowhere

(Get a Life!)

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If we were to link music to the aesthetics of a country we would not in a million years expect Yog to hail form Switzerland. No, the beautiful watch making country does things in exact manners because that’s a craft they’ve been perfecting, which is an attribute that has been transmitted to Yog for sure, after all they are clearly influenced by the early material of the Dillinger Escape Plan, and as is displayed in Years of Nowhere the exactitude with which they drop off those effervescent riffs and drums is worthy of admiration.   Yog does that tricky stuff where guitars align with drums, then they both head in separate directions, only to eventually meet, go as one for a bit, and then eventually turn grindcore through absurd speed. They do that right, so if you are one of those that misses the Dillinger Escpe Plan of yore, Years of Nowhere sounds like a continuation to Calculating Infinity.

Where Yog kind of fails is in their spirit of innovation, an attribute that has helped their country’s watch making industry stay on top of the game. Hear me when I say that this is crazy violent, crazy exact, crazy brutal, technically accurate as a Patek Phillipe, but once again, shall they conform to sounding like someone else. They clearly have the chops, so why not go the extra mile and adding some originality? The first seven songs are straight up math core, a trend that is only broken by the curious feedback-laden passage “Orchidian”. In any other recording the inclusion of such curveball would have represented an introduction to another side of the band, instead Yog regal us with “Kal-El”; speedy, technical, brutal and well...math core-ish.

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