Album Type:
EP
Date Released: October 2014
Label:
Self Released
Ypres - track
listing:
1. Ypres
2. 16 With A Bullet
3. Trench Foot
Bio
Messers O'Shea, Bull
and Burston put their collective heads together and played some death
tinged sludge..or sludge tinged death depending on who you ask. The
result was the ETERNAL BLEEDING demo EP available at the bandcamp
page. The band's debut was supporting the mighty Thorun, Hogslayer
and Raptordactyls in December 2012. The following year saw them
sharing the stage with the likes of Pohl and Widows, as well as local
heavyweights Cryptophile, Howl, HOMOH, Gorgantuan, Bloodlung, Fell On
Black Days, Culver, and Ironbird as well as more shows with the
aforementioned Hogslayer and Thorun and reaching the Semi-Finals of
the Cardiff leg of the Metal 2 the Masses competition.
Members
Anthony 'Snake'
O'Shea-Shredding/Apparitions
Chris
Bull-Throat/Low-End Assault/Noise
Tom Lee-Battery
Review:
The
sound of sadness. A slow torture. War, mustard gas and bodies caked
with mud. A thousand trenches cut in to a landscape pockmarked by
shell craters, rows of twisted razor wire stretching off into the
distance . This is what I see in my minds eye when listening to
Ypres. A mixture of Doom, Sludge and blackened Death Metal brought to
you by Welsh trio....Tides Of Sulfur.
War
is not a new musical theme, it's part of our history...it's happening
right now. Many bands have written songs, even whole albums, based on
our inclination to destroy each other. Heavy music seems to get the
point across. The turmoil, the pointlessness, the sadness that
follows every bullet. Tides Of Sulfur have put together something
that represents all of these things. Slow suffocation, dark and
claustrophobic.
Title
track 'Ypres' begins with a short spoken word sample, the music
begins, slow and bludgeoning. A layer of sound sits in the
background, gun fire and whirring bullets. The bass guitar sits alone
in the grim emptiness. Growling vocals punch through, giving us
snippets of information about the grizzly scene. The music marches on
relentlessly, one fuzz drenched note after another. You can almost
feel the state manufactured hatred that was burned in to each fallen
man.
'16
With A Bullet' is faster in pace. Short and to the point; Death Metal
in its make up. Screaming at us about the young dead. The
determination to survive in an impossible environment. The drums
thunder and stampede, the fog of war. It ends as quickly as it
begins..just like human life.
Another
lonely bass guitar riff is the intro to 'Trench Foot', with the slow
rhythm following shortly after. The guitar joins in to complete the
lazy march. Then it's all change, the doom ends and the aggression
begins, the track moves in another direction. More talk of bullets
and the brothers they have stolen away. We open out in to an
instrumental section that sets the scene for the words that
follow.....“Only the dead see the end of the world”. Then stop.
Ypres
does what the band wanted it to do. It gives a glimpse in to the dark
heart of the human condition. I was impressed and saddened. Maybe
this is more relevant to right now than we care to admit.
Ypres will be released on October 18th 2014 on Vinyl style CD, limited edition green or grey cassette and digital download.
Ypres will be released on October 18th 2014 on Vinyl style CD, limited edition green or grey cassette and digital download.
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the Band from Links Below
Written
by Keeran Williams
