Is ‘pile’ the collective noun for priests? Like ‘bunch’ is the collective noun for cunts? As I continue to wade through the mass of releases from the later portion of 2015, this washed up around my ankles.
It transpires that POP are a traditional death metal from Denver, Colorado, who revel in a ‘vintage death metal style reminiscent of the early 1990s Florida bands but also incorporates technical and progressive passages that lend length to their songs.’
Length is cool, but it’s the girth that matters. They certainly attack at pace and throw in some frenzied fretwork – not to mention some flash soloing (and a really, spectacularly horrible bass solo five minutes into ‘Incantations of Old’) – but the duration of the tracks feels like a hindrance to the overall trajectory of things as they thrash on for five or six minutes at a stretch, kicking out a tumultuous racket without any real sense of direction.
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The album’s progressive elements subdue the black metal force which drives it, and ultimately renders the rage rather impotent, and Pile of Priests succumbing to their more indulgently technical urges.
Pile of Priests Online
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