LIKE A VOLCANIC ASH CLOUD OF METAL FROM ICELAND: MOMENTUM

Chalk it up to geographic isolation, but Icelandic bands really haven’t represented in the worldwide metal scene… until now.

The songs posted at the Bandcamp link that the Icelandic band Momentum sent us are so good that I’ve had them open in a browser tab for a week now… and there’s only two of them! Imagine the intricate, slow, doomy goodness of Cult of Luna or a more focused version of Isis mixed with elephants marching-like Gojira battle stomps of death metal and a progressive bent in the band’s songwriting approach… hard to do, I know, so just go ahead and listen to the two songs Momentum have posted at Bandcamp.

This is the kind doom that I wish was more plentiful in the world; well-produced, sonically rich and intricate, as opposed to raw-for-the-sake-of-raw and slow-for-the-sake-of-slow doom that ends up just being boring instead of powerful. This is powerful… just the right amount of raw and just the right amount of slow, mixed in with plenty of other stuff to keep it interesting.

Momentum’s new album Fixation, At Rest was released on May 14th.

-VN