Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass [CD]

2014 release from the New York-based Metal band. With this collection of songs, the band has evolved into something much darker than their 2012 debut, the music shifting from passages of moody, understated atonal melody into blasts of frost-bitten discordant blackness and lurching, angular riffs. Beginning with the crushing, doom-laden dread that opens 'Time's Vomiting Mouth', it's yawning blackened heaviness glazed in a glistening electronic sheen, the band quickly erupt into paroxysms of jagged black metal violence. Amy Mills' ghastly scream drifts vaporously behind those twisted, lurching grooves and blackened blasts, often trading off with the gorgeously ghostly sound of her trumpet bleating in the darkness, strains of spectral jazziness echoing through the depths beneath the band's complex, metallic assault.