Merchants Of Air
  • Home
  • Reviews
    • Albums
    • Concerts
  • Interviews

Charlene Beretah – Ram

28/11/2019

Comments

 
sludge / doom / metal
Division Records
bandcamp
facebook
Picture
Switzerland’s music scene is thriving this year of our lord 2019 – Rorcal, Coilguns, the whole HUC scene and many more. Charlene Beretah from Neuchâtel is one of those bands from the second line of heavy bands to come out of mountainous Switzerland at the moment. Initially started in 2014 as a duo and, since 2016, a threesome after adding a guitar player (to make their sound heavier) they now released their first full-length “Ram” via Division Records. The title of the record is also its party program!

Like many heavy bands they chose to go for a distorted, sometimes noisy sound to transport their idea of modern sludge – quite punkish, a bit crusty and sometimes pretty groovy but always and foremost heavy! 

Very often the five songs breathe a lot of doom (witness the lengths with one track ticking in at over eight minutes, two even over eleven minutes) while at the same time never giving up on the necessities of the songs, whether it’s a bit of time or an outbreak to keep the oppressive, claustrophobic mood, because one thing is for sure: Here no sun shines behind closed doors. The way the vocals by Thierry are incorporated into the whole soundscape is definitely interesting; in “Hurt” (an ever-winding descent towards purgatory) they are in the foreground as he leads the way with some harsher passages between spoken words and infernal screams. “Call of Darkness” witnesses an elegant intro full of small interwoven electronics, then transforms with noisy shots from left and right before it completely bursts after about a minute, a song so full of life that it’s hard to grasp it all – here again, the vocals are very crusty and aggressive. 

Their whole sound-system and simultaneously the listener is being thrown to and fro with Sâver, Ufomammut and Neurosis being the cornerstones to their songwriting. No one can deny Charlene Beretah a thorough knowledge of how to write songs and using small changes in dynamics and sound in order to transform the whole song and/or its atmosphere. However, one might also see that – at the moment – they are still a band reaching for the places in the first line of awesome noisy Swiss sludge or black metal bands. On a good route to those spots they are, but not quite there yet.


Thorsten

Comments
    Picture
    Support Merchants Of Air, check our our shirts

    Categories

    All
    Acoustic
    Alternative
    Ambient
    Americana
    Avant Garde
    Blackgaze
    Black Metal
    Blues
    Breakcore
    Classical
    Country
    Crust
    Dark Ambient
    Dark Jazz
    Darkwave
    Death Metal
    Doom
    Downtempo
    Dreampop
    Drone
    Drum & Bass
    Dungeon Synth
    EBM
    Edm
    Electronic
    Experimental
    Folk
    Folk Metal
    Funk
    Glitch
    Gothic
    Grindcore
    Grunge
    Hardcore
    Hard Rcok
    Hard Rock
    Heavy Metal
    Hip Hop
    House
    Idm
    Indie
    Industrial
    Jazz
    Krautrock
    Lo Fi
    Lo-fi
    Martial Industrial
    Math Rock
    Metal
    Metalcore
    Musique Concrète
    Neofolk
    New Wave
    Noise
    Noise Rock
    Nu Metal
    Pop
    Post Hardcore
    Post Metal
    Post Punk
    Post Rock
    Power Electronics
    Power Metal
    Progressive
    Psychedelic
    Psytrance
    Punk
    Rock
    Shoegaze
    Sludge
    Soul
    Soundtrack
    Southern Rock
    Space Rock
    Stoner Rock
    Symphonic Metal
    Synthpop
    Techno
    Thrash Metal
    Trance
    Trip Hop
    Vaporwave

Find us on

facebook
google+
twitter
tumblr
​
minds

About Us

Contact
FAQ
Logos and banners
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.