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Album Type:
Full Length
Date Released:
21/7/2014
Label:
Bandcamp
“BLEAK
ZERO” DD track listing:
1) Arbitrary System Whore 04:27
2) Less Of A Reason 07:18
3) Misophonic Petulance 03:07
4) Madman Possesed 06:30
5) The Spectator – Part 1 11:31
Bio:
Hailing from the post industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent in the UK
The Band:
Morph | vocals
Lorna Dean | drums
Rob Hunt | guitar
Mike Davies | bass
Review:
Every day there seems to
be a new sub genre of a sub genre that appears on the music scene that I
presume is designed to help you choose from the mass of music on offer, and if
only one of the words match your musical tastes then it is possibly worth a
listen.
Bleak Zero describe
themselves as Angular post-modern doom rock and it describes the music well
even though the doom part is not high on the agenda.
‘Arbitrary System Whore’
starts off with the angular part of the description with the riff jerking
around in your head with vocalist ‘Morph’ putting his heart and soul into a
growl/roar that is bleak and fits the track to perfection.
‘Less of A Reason’ starts
off slow and quiet before the vocals kick in and Morph seems to be in pain and
you feel he is suffering before the riff starts to speed up into a pounding
trudge to the end of the track.
‘Misophonic Petulance’ is
shorter with an almost punk like quality “you wont fucking listen” screamed at
you ending abruptly bouncing into ‘Madman Possesed’ which is the track on the
album that is the most angular and all over the place, but in a good way.
The Final track on the
album is the longest and builds up slowly, with the first 5 minutes a very
gentle guitar that finally bursts into life and screams and screeches its way
to a abrupt end.
I really enjoyed this
album and at just over 30 minutes it does leave you wanting more. Bleak Zero
say that they are hard to pinpoint but if you are fans of Neurosis and Gojira,
this band is very much worth a listen.
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