Lovingly pinched from WRUV Reviews: This is the third release from the UK’s End of Level Boss — a mix of progressive, doom and stoner metal. ‘As The Earth Forgets Us’ is a mess of crashing waves, delivering salty riffs that sync up perfectly with the orbit of the moon. It paints a broad picture of an Earth in which man was never a factor. On ‘Mouth of Hats‘, Heck Armstrong gasps for air among the pull of muddy riffs, courtesy of Roland Schriver and Peter Theobalds, equal parts bleak and somber.
By the time I made it to ‘Senescence’, the creak of my knees and the pain in my writing hand sharpened. Suddenly, I had a flashback of an old man, staring in my face with a sinister cackle, his eyes peeling back in his forehead. The crash of the drums and echo of the vocals left me reeling on the floor. Just when I thought the fear would never cease, a Blueshift occured in which red became blue and fear became hope. The filth of prior tracks washed away in favor of upbeat drums mated to a bluesy-doom time signature that brings to mind a cross between The Gates of Slumber and Candlemass.
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I first saw EOLB at Roadburn in 2006. Killer band. I no longer live in London where I saw them a few times. Hope they make it to the Netherlands again soon.