DRUJ - Chants To Irkalla
Godz Ov War Productions
Over the years I've listened to a few bands from Alaska but they're not what I heard when I lived there for two years in the 1980's. Back then it was all wannabe classic rock. Since then I've heard a black metal act (obviously) but here we have one into death doom. DRUJ hail from Anchorage, Alaska, a place that I have a few memories of although I lived north of it in Fairbanks back then. I also took some trips up above the Arctic Circle as well. So I do know cold.
But anyways DRUJ do have a penchant for the coldness and bleak surroundings in their overall sound. There's plenty of sludge in their statement accompanied by bestial vocals. Add to that some melodic atmosphere and blackened touches all of which drives this release closer to the front of a crowded field.
Chants To Irkalla is a dense affair as well as being a very mixed bag of slow motion sounds which might have you imagining dying in a harsh cold environment. I've got the heat on here and these six cuts have a way of sending a chill in me. It's not bad for a debut full length but musically they're still part of the crowd. And that's regardless of whether you live some place where it's colder than a well digger's ass.
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