Hearing it left me with elevated medical readings. I don’t know what I expected from this album, but I heard something I could never have anticipated. The final track is “Ascending A Pillar Of Light” and it offers no respite – it is as big and wicked and strange as the rest. The destination, however, is the splintering, molten pits of hell. “Traversing The Wandering Star” begins darkly, cold as deep space. And then, unbeknownst to me initially, a groovy cool-down ensued that made me wonder what I was so upset about. Listening, my knuckles going white, I began to wonder if escape velocity could be achieved within the limits of my own experience. Now again, extraterrestrial (or possibly intraterrestrial) weapons are deployed and tip you ass-over-teakettle into a weirdness heretofore only imagined. “Inertia” brings us back to more earthly death metal of the ravaging, granite crunching variety. Soul Gazer by True Respite Brewing Company is a IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy which has a rating of 4.1 out of 5, with 32 ratings and reviews on Untappd. There is certainly an otherworldly feeling in this music, but it turns out to be only a prelude to the weirdness that is the very next track, “Be Here Now…” The warbling confusion is a headbender, and then some. The death metal is heavy and solid, making the well-oiled alternations and additions ideally infectious. It is the product of over a year of arduous personal journeys, and collective experience.” This one track, which accounts for about one third the music in the entire set, covers the described ground with trippy aplomb. The band has said that the album “is a narrative of inner awakening. The album starts big with the thirteen-minute supernova that is “Transcendental Visions.” Given this much room to work, you have to expect some exploration. The musicians are Adrian McClair (guitar), Michael Schrock (guitar and vocals), and Zach Johnson (drums). Of course, you might have guessed that from the name of the band.

Their music is a celestial (meaning astronomical) brand of death metal, taken to a higher level on the new album. Carcariass, Afterworld (Season Of Mist 2023)įormed in Denver, Colorado just a couple of years ago, Astral Tomb have released a demo, a split, and an EP leading up to their current full-length record, Soulgazer.Mesmur, Chthonic (Aesthetic Death 2023).The Soulgazer can be crafted with a Diamond, Bones, and Gold Ingots. Deathgrave, It’s Only Midnight (Tankcrimes 2023) The Soulgazer is an item from Lycanites Mobs that can be used to gain Knowledge of mobs from the mod.The Crooked Whispers, Funeral Blues (Ripple 2023).

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