 |
| Oak Pantheon - In Pieces |
If you’re like me, you use music as a soundtrack; an opportunity to express yourself in a poetic way. It’s a means to convey your feelings audibly without ever having to say a word. With the internet, you have the ultimate library of sentiment right in your home allowing you to demonstrate your inner-most passions and reflecting them unto the world.
Oak Pantheon, a post-black metal band from Minneapolis, MN paint a sense of bleak desolation with In Pieces, the band’s second full-length album and first recorded material since Elemental Nightmares - I -- a split with Kess'khtak, Wildernessking & Liber Necris in 2014. An emotionally encumbering album devoid of any sense of delight, In Pieces is the perfect album for a day filled with grey skies and a dreary heart.
“Dawn of a New Day” opens the album with a swift force. A captivating track that encompasses an anguish so fierce, you will contemplate it long after having heard it. Incorporating harsh vocal tones with black metal-esque riffs, this is a song that entrances you, formulating a chemistry inside of you that is inspiring, yet disheartening.
In Pieces is a lyrical masterpiece. It tugs at your emotions as you face an onslaught of melancholic tracks meant to inspire a sense of apathy towards the outer world. A philosophical maelstrom that faces themes of distress, heart-ache and loss, this album emanates an gloomy aura all around.
Oak Pantheon will bring you on an exciting ride as you ascend the summit of In Pieces. A journey of malevolent dissonance awaits you, causing an everlasting high that ensnares you, inflicting you with an addiction that cannot be emulated. It permits dejection and grief to spiral in conjunction with one another, creating a vicious energy within you that you’ve been lusting for ages to obtain. A formidable contender in my already lengthy list for year’s best record.
Oak Pantheon is:
Sami Sati (All Instruments)
Tanner Swenson (All instruments)
The album can be streamed below and purchased on the band’s Bandcamp page. In Pieces was released on May 16th, 2016 independently.
No comments:
Post a Comment