By: Chris Bull
Album Type: EP
Date
Released: 16/06/2016
Label: Transylvanian Tapes
Sounding
like a seismic shift, 'Swans' instantly obliterates everything. The riffs
slowly and mercilessly attack the central nervous system while the vocals
suffocate and strangle. At the tail end
of this EP comes the even more epic and gigantic 'Ruins', if you can imagine
Andy Dufregne's escape in ' The Shawshank Redemption'; slow, filthy, dark,
foreboding, this track is the embodiment of it.
Body Void have set the bench mark pretty damn high now, surely they will
follow this up with something truly amazing.
‘Ruins’ CS//CD//DD
track listing:
1).
Swans
2).
Erased
3).
Monolith
4).
Ruins
The Review:
Damn
it feels good to be a Sludgelord; especially when tasty slabs of sonic
mass come hurtling towards your face! I'll admit, I'd never heard of Body Void
or their previous incarnation; Devoid but man, 'Ruins' their 1st EP has certainly left a lingering taste!
Sounding
like a seismic shift, 'Swans'
instantly obliterates everything. The riffs slowly and mercilessly attack the
central nervous system while the vocals suffocate and strangle. The guitars are
lacking a little weight behind them that would make the force of each strum
that much greater but it still packs enough grit to cause plenty of earaches.
'Erased' has a slightly faster,
crustier opening but slows into some truly blood curdling doom! The titanic 'Monolith' is rather eponymous;
standing, solemnly amidst the shrieking vocals and feedback are riffs that
are...well, monolithic! The crusty part at the songs midsection is well placed
and very welcome amongst the huge distorted slabs of blackened doom. At the
tail end of this EP comes the even more epic and gigantic 'Ruins', if you can imagine Andy Dufregne's escape in ' The Shawshank Redemption'; slow,
filthy, dark, foreboding, this track is the embodiment of it. Despite being 16
minutes of slow, torturous doom, it still has plenty of twists to keep your
attention.
Body Void have set the bench mark
pretty damn high now, surely they will follow this up with something truly
amazing.
‘Ruins’ is available here
