A Storm of Light--And We Wept the Black Ocean Within-(Neurot)-Advance-2008-UKi

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a r t i s t : A Storm of Light

t i t l e : And We Wept the Black Ocean Within

d a t e : 2008

l a b e l : Neurot

c a t : NEU59D

s o u r c e : CDDA

g e n r e : Metal

r l s. d a t e : Apr/2008

t r a c k s : 10

b i t r a t e : VBRkbps

s i z e : 83,1 MB



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10 tracks 60 minutes. A truely suspenseful, captivating debut,

monolithic and epic in sound. Brought to you by members of

Neurosis, Unsane and an ex-member of Tombs/Asea. - Debut

release from Brooklyn, NY trio A Storm Of Light. - The band

features Josh Graham (Blood & Time, Battle Of Mice, ex-Red

Sparowes), Domenic Seita (ex-Tombs, ex-Asea), Pete Angevine

(Satanized). - Since this recording Vincent Signorelli

(Unsane, ex-Swans) has joined as a second drummer. The voice

that leads And We Wept The Black Ocean Within is now dead.

No, tragedy hasn't struck since the album was recorded. The

debut release from Brooklyn, NY trio A Storm Of Light is

anything but posthumous. However, within its murky,

suffocating depths there lies little certainty about the

origin and veracity of the words bellowed by guitarist Josh

Graham (also Neurosis visual director, Blood And Time, Battle

Of Mice and formerly of Red Sparowes) as mouthpiece of the

album's protagonist. The unreliable narrator as a literary

device -- familiar to the works of authors like Edgar Allan

Poe and William Faulkner -- places readers within an

intractable mind in a severely compromised state.

Interestingly, this notion rarely explored in rock music is

the essence of And We Wept The Black Ocean Within. The

first-person lyrics are unclear exactly who might be

delivering them as they appear to move through varying stages

of grief (i.e. denial, anger, bargaining, depression,

acceptance) throughout the course of the album. It could be

something inanimate, could be something animal, or it could be

the words of someone long deceased. Graham isn't forthcoming

with details, however. The closest he comes is a vague hint to

the cover artwork and something to do with so-called "bog

bodies" -- phenomenally well-preserved human remains dating

back to the Celtic Iron Age of persons violently dispensed by

being submerged in acidic peat bogs. Whichever the case may

be, these dark themes of drowning, destruction and despair are

perfectly suited to A Storm Of Light's impressively

pressurized sound. Graham is joined on the album by

bassist/vocalist Domenic Seita (ex-Tombs, ex-Asea) and drummer

Pete Angevine of Satanized. Since this recording, rhythmic

pugilist extraordinaire Vincent Signorelli (Unsane, ex-Swans)

has signed on as second drummer. As you'd guess by the

pedigree, A Storm Of Light is brutally hard-hitting. However,

the group's haunting harmonic drone meshing guitar, vocals and

subtle keyboard layers gives listeners a sense of slow

suffocation in waves of noise rather than straightforward

pummeling. While the immediate heavy rock referents of the

band's antecedents make sense, the album has just as much in

common with narrative-based groups like Crime & The City

Solution than conceptual metal. As an early influence on Nick

Cave & The Bad Seeds (and later to share members), Crime & The

City Solution's Simon Bonney penned dark tales of desperation

and punctuated them with precise song structures that flowed

with the prose, rarely adhering to traditional

verse-chorus-verse formula. Likewise, And We Wept The Black

Ocean Within moves in versicle form between the voice and

instruments. The result is an album densely packed with

suspense, tension and eruptive release. Aided by master

engineer Joel Hamilton (Book Of Knots, Battle Of Mice),

Graham's slack-tuned guitar rumbles and groans while subtle

keyboard lines and Seita's bass slither throughout the lowest

ranges of the musical scale. Angevine's lunging rhythms add

crashing and propulsive heft. The vocals sound as intricately

layered as the other instruments, often sounding unclear how

many voices are adding to the harmony... guitar notes, voices,

synth chords all blur into a wash that quite suitably evokes a

sense of deep sea water pressure. We wouldn't go so far to

suggest that it could give listeners a case of the bends, but

And We Wept The Black Ocean Within is not the type of album

that one can easily escape and switch into something else.

Throughout, there are many jutting sonic surprises that we'd

be reticent to reveal herein. Suffice to say, the debut of A

Storm of Light is a truly suspenseful and captivating work

that bears nearly as much to do with masterful cinema and

literature as it does with the type of monolithic and epic

sounds of its musical progenitors. -- Dave Clifford

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01-Adrift [01:48]

02-Vast & Endless [07:27]

03-Black Ocean [09:11]

04-Thunderhead [07:54]

05-Undertow [03:16]

06-Mass [08:05]

07-Leaden Tide [07:50]

08-Breach [02:06]

09-Descent [05:00]

10-Iron Heart [10:21]

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62:58 min

 

 

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