Ash Borer / Ash Borer
Album: Ash Borer   Collection:General
Artist:Ash Borer   Added:Feb 2012
Label:Psychic Violence  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2012-02-05 Pull Date: 2012-04-08 Charts: Loud
Week Ending: Apr 1 Mar 4 Feb 12
Airplays: 1 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 21, 2015: Sounds of the Underworld
In The Midst Of Life, We Are In Death
4. Mar 31, 2012: Catharsis
My Curse Was Raised In The Darkness Against A Doomsday Silence
2. Jun 30, 2015: Sounds of the Underworld
Rest, You Are The Lightning
5. Mar 03, 2012: Catharsis / shenanigans
My Curse Was Raised In The Darkness Against A Doomsday Silence
3. Jun 23, 2012: Catharsis
My Curse Was Raised In The Darkness Against A Doomsday Silence
6. Mar 02, 2012: Songs: Cantan
My Curse Was Raised In The Darkness Against A Doomsday Silence

Album Review
D. Cannibal
Reviewed 2012-02-02
Like their northern neighbors Wolves In The Throne Room, this Humboldt-based black metal band produces long songs that are intelligently arranged suites with tempo progressions that build a lot of tension and resolve with epic triumph; however, their sound is far more violent and jarring than other Cascadian bands. Replace the ambient/neo-folk influence with crushing sludge and at atmosphere full of despair and bleak, bloodthirsty hatred. Twin guitars coalesce more to add weight to the tone rather than to harmonize, and the vocals are dark roars from the depths of hell rather than Burzum-esque banshee screeches. When they opened for Wolves and Worm Ouroboros at Slim’s, the hipster SF crowd was forced to shut the fuck up and listen.

FCC clean. RIYL: Milton’s Paradise Lost but you wish Satan had won

1: (11:50) A lot of dynamic contrast—pummeling, relentless, and bloodthirsty when it’s fast; grueling and bonecrushing when it’s slow. At high volumes, the dissonance may irreparably shatter your timpani. (feedback outro ABRUPTLY SEGUES into next track)
2: (7:57) As one might expect, the shortest track picks up the speed during the fast parts, compressing all the aggression into a more compact vessel. Absolutely ballistic, apocalyptic, destructive. A lo-fi harmonizing slow part concludes, gorgeous but no less despairing.
3: (19:39) Massive, epic—fast, slow, everywhere in between. An unrelenting hail of riffs from every angle, masterfully sustained for the entire B-side. Starts with eerie, melancholy drone and quickly tumbles into an array of sonic blasphemies.

Track Listing
1. In The Midst Of Life, We Are In Death   2. Rest, You Are The Lightning
  3. My Curse Was Raised In The Darkness Against A Doomsday Silence