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american – Coping With Loss. Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories – SRUIN003. Format: Cassette, Album, Numbered. Coping With Loss And The Insurmountable Guilt Of Existing.
Naturally, american’s debut, Coping With Loss, billed as black metal noise, caught my eye. Could it be that 2014 is about to yield yet another masterpiece of the humbly horrific genre? My hopes were high, my jimmies aligned. If american cut out half of this album, it would make a very cool EP with equal amounts of interesting ideas and kvlt credibility, but the inclusion of abhorrent clichés and ponderous ambient tracks that provide neither needed rest nor genuine intrigue leave a bad taste in the mouth. Coping With Loss is not an absolute failure, but it’s by no means the success that it easily could have been – and thus, the jimmies have been afflicted. Release Dates: EU: 2014.
Any chances American has of coming out on top with the bands strong melodies, out there riffs, and interesting grooves are completely drowned out by downright terrible quality, paint by number structures and very generic leads, and simple uninteresting vocals. Give Your Opinion on Coping With Loss. Staff & Contributors // Site Forum // Contact us. Bands:.
American - Coping with Loss. Written by Steven Leslie. Artwork by Kevin Gan Yuen. American is a little known, relatively new duo out of Virginia that plays a blend of black metal, sludge and noise. Having not heard any of their demos or singles, released in 2013, I just happened to stumble across them on one of my many late night bandcamp browsing sessions. The tempo drops significantly toward the middle of the album as Lamb to Slaughter claws its way along in slow dirge. This is followed by three minutes of rather ominous noise in Pulse Beating Slowly, before Solace in Silence comes crashing in with blast beats and a relentless tremolo picked assault. Coping ends with 18 minutes of drones, samples and power electronics that, at least for me personally, is a bit of a let down and doesn’t really do justice to the power of the opening tracks.
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Ari Wilson 2014-08-29. Ari Wilson · August 29, 2014. American, though revolving around the same idea, make it to a passably different place. The rightfully named debut, Coping With Loss, is but to advocate suicide; and it is not an elegy either – it is to transcend
