Friday, August 14, 2009

A Storm Of Light - Full High-Quality Discography

A Storm Of Light is american Post-Doom Metal, formed by Josh Graham from Neurosis. In the best traditions of Neurosis! Atmospheric and beauty! Best recommendations!
And We Wept The Black Ocean Within (2008)
It sounds like some Neurosis fans decided to try their hand a drone doom. A closer look, and you can see why, as guitarist and keyboardist Josh Graham has had some involvement with Neurosis. It’s especially apparent with when you can hear the later period Neurosis, with the cleaner droning vocals, drums that are almost tribal at times, and generally windy, sparse, open landscape. The attack though is a bit slower, focused on drawing out the power from those long drags with the guitars. While these guys do wear the Neurosis influence right on their sleeve, it’s like they took the ideals of said band and forked them off into a different direction. The execution isn’t made to have blatantly obvious power from superficial elements, like beating the listener with the instruments. Instead the heavy here you can feel from the raw emotion pouring off. As always, trying to explain bands that fit into the same world that Neurosis does is extremely difficult not familiar with the band or their brethren. As much as I can tell you this a more metallic, doomier take on “metalgaze” (as some have labeled this genre), all the talk of landscapes, and atmospheres, which tend to be the chosen terms to describe this style won’t be enough. Sure, A Storm of Light come from slowed-down hardcore roots with keyboards and samples added, backed by tribal drums, and in this case, with a general slower, gloomier, doom feel, but such descriptions are never quite enough. Fortunately we do live in an age of free samples and MySpace streams... If you’re ready, prepare yourself to be sucked into another world.
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A Storm Of Light/Nadja - Primitive North [Split] (2009)
Nadja, the prolific drone duo and A Storm Of Light, an atmospheric doom/post-whatever outfit fronted by Josh Graham (of Red Sparowes fame) collaborate on this recording of atmospheric proportions. Each band does a cover of a song from the other band's side of the split. This is a really cool idea, and something I looked forward to greatly, as it allows for a more intimate meeting of the two bands. Beginning with A Storm of Light's side, "Brother" offers itself up as the best song of the split. A Storm of Light ( from here on ASoL) creates powerfully atmospheric and heavy music in a familiar, but original form. Surrounded in a multitude of ambient effects and heavy trudging guitar and bass, and healthy portions of feedback ASoL switch from distant and ethereal passages of clean vocals, which implore a very neat use of male and female vocals ( the male vocals speak and the female responds; a cool effect), then into powerfully moving sections of yelled vocals and heavy, plodding strings. A captivating and pleasant song ASoL has an impressive beginning. "Sister" continues their side in a similar fashion, but in a much more detached and angry sounding manner; something that doesn't work greatly for them. While a decent song, it's nothing more than that. ASoL completely falls off the boat with their cover of Nadja's offering from this split. While a noble, and fun idea, I find it something just to skip.Nadja's side starts strong with a mellow sounding loop and blissfully heavy and crunching guitars. Carrying a melodic and enjoyable vibe the song lurches on with ghostly and serene vocals and thudding drums. In typical Nadja fashion the song builds up into a dense, multilayered wall of noise that takes on a more serious and grounded tone. While a very good offering from Nadja, the song goes on a bit too long and gets too repetitive; even for Nadja there's a such thing. Like ASoL, Nadja covers their splitmate's work and chooses ASoL's strongest track, "Brother." The track begins with bleak effects and a clean guitar which explodes into an uglier and extremely less satisfying version of the powerful chorus section of ASoL's "Brother." The track is pretty useless, but unlike ASoL's attempt at Nadja's work, you could tell that this was ASoL's song. It's a real shame that both of the covers are absolutely boring and not really worth listening to. In the end, both bands offer up one good song. ASoL's "Brother" steals the show, as Nadja's song goes ona bit too long and isn't anything really new for Nadja. Another shame is I recently saw ASoL live and they are an amazingly powerful and enjoyable band, it only comes out here with "Brother," but even live "sister" was captivating. Buy if you're a die hard, the release seems to have a lot of work put into it, but other wise look for other offerings of the bands.
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Posted by wurm at 8/14/2009 02:45:00 AM