Irradiated feedback joins the damning strains of the opening chords that introduce the album opener, “Phantasmagoric Journey.” The rhythm pulls us into a slow-churning dirge that inspires a deeply felt bodily response, one in which I found myself almost involuntarily (it’s hard to tell) clo...
The first two minutes of “213” put the listener in a state of limbo with doom-laden melodies over muddy, sustained chords and plunging fills as Hanneman works in his signature sinuous lead work while the intensity builds and exhales. The tension is released: not in the usual violent explo...
The first two minutes of “213” put the listener in a state of limbo with doom-laden melodies over muddy, sustained chords and plunging fills as Hanneman works in his signature sinuous lead work while the intensity builds and exhales. The tension is released: not in the usual violent ...