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Hateure - Body & Soil

17/7/2015

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sludge / doom / post-metal
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A while ago, I reviewed the debut e.p. from The Insekt Life Cycle, a post-rock band from the Philippines.  As I mentioned in that writing, the members have a background in metal bands and one of them sent me this crushing gem, a twenty five minutes lasting steamroller of post-metal and doom. Hateure was formed in 2007 and released a first demo two years later.  Currently the band is working on their third full-length but they have now released this 'Body & Soil' e.p. as an example of what they're up to these days.  

The album opens somewhat psychedelic with title track 'Body & Soil'.  This song issues an interesting post-rock/shoegaze atmosphere before finally bursting out in highly distorted post-metal, or sludge if you will.  However, here too the stoner rock elements remain present in the sound of the guitars.  

Yet, as good as this song already is, 'Reptililian Blues' crushes all competition.  This song is an immense doom anthem, almost twelve minutes long, driving on a slow, cumbersome tempo and heavily distorted guitars.  Deep growls are added over the punishing riffs, creating some awesome noise.  This is one sick and epic song that slowly evolves, varies and alternates.  Damn, this is good.

'Koleoptera ' closes the e.p. in perfect sludge-doom tradition, again being a terrifying slow song with a twisted, intense atmosphere.  If this really is what Hateure is up to for their upcoming album, I'm game.  'Body & Soil' is a very promising and actually highly refreshing piece of modern day doom metal which is too good to ignore.


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