When Icarus Falls - Circles

When Icarus Falls follow up "Aegean" from 2012 with four

powerful tracks that will make mountains crumble into

the sea and the moon move out of orbit. 

For me, post-metal has just about run its course, with only a handful

of bands capable of rising above the cut'n'paste copyists that seem

to litter this genre.

Luckily for us all, When Icarus Fall escape that trap with thoughtful

song writing capabilities that have an epic feel to them and yet still

retain a hardcore edge to focus the tracks with razor-sharp guitar riffs

that slice through the sonic denseness.

Atmospherics that are sparsely used do not overplay their hand,

instead they add, rather than distract from the rage and despair

being played out through the songs. Despite the power and

fury, there is a hypnotic quality due to the running order of the

tracks that brings a cohesive feel that just sounds right.

These guys just get better and better.

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Many thanks to Jeremy from Black Wave for sending this to me.

When Icarus Falls - Aegean

Request from Blue Wave Productions.

When Icarus Fall play post-metal with an intelligence sometimes

missing from this genre. Utilising song compositions that would

seem to be more post-rock, this collection of tracks have thundering

aggression melded with moments of delicate beauty.

Heavy but managing to retain an epic feel is a trick not easy

to pull off but here it works wonderfully. Riffs are played

that have a majestic feel and groove to them and are backed 

up with a pounding and hard hitting rhythm section. The vocals

are screamed out but resist the hoary old cookie monster sound,

instead actually containing the emotions of despair and disgust.

Sparing used keyboards bring moments of calm before the

atmospherics give way to a squall of controlled fury.

This is very good.

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