After months of anticipation, To Solemn Ash -- the debut
album from Danish sludge/metal trio RISING -- is now available
for purchase across North America, released today via Exile On Mainstream and
E1 Distribution.
To
Solemn Ash boasts
nearly fifty minutes of RISING's solid doom-and-groove heavy metal
thunder over ten tracks. The album was produced by Jakob Reichert Nielsen,
mastered by Alan Douches (Converge, Mastodon, High On Fire, etc.) and bears
artwork by Jakob Printzlau aka Plastic Kid (Lack, Volbeat, BMTH, Kashmir, etc). The
record is available in a 4-panel digifile CD and digital download,
as well as a limited edition import-only 180-gram gatefold LP.
"...tracks
that sound like they're going to implode in a mess of smoldering tar, cracked
horse hooves, bong glass shards, transmission pieces from a 1971 Corvette
Stingray and flaming lumberjack axes... 8/10" - Decibel
"The
10 tracks are catchy and heavy in equal proportion, balancing brutality and
melody with precision and a feel that is neither amateurish nor
contrived." - The Obelisk
"...Rising
have a knack for huge, blustery sludge anthems..." - Pitchfork
"The band tempers the heft and brutality of sludge
and doom with enough trad-metal finesse to render an exceptionally listenable
record that still hits hard." - MetalReview
"The band knows how to put rocking, heavy-ass tunes
together, tunes that flow like a river of molten lead." - Doommantia
"...the attitude of Thin Lizzy, the bass lines of
Black Sabbath, the melodic approach of Maiden and Priest, the thrash and mayhem
of early Metallica and Celtic Frost, and the modern metal sound of High on Fire
and Mastodon." - We Love Metal
"...these guys expertly blend vintage metal with
sludge to create both the typical down-in-the-muck feel and headbanging
grooves." - Popdose
"Moving from menacing to melodic in the space of
minutes, the band are clearly competent at their sound..." - Metal Reviews
No comments:
Post a Comment