Labels: Noxious Noize
Review by: Alex Deller
Thou’s “Tyrant” LP struck me as rather a sack of crap but I was prepared to give “em the benefit of the doubt since so many folks seem to hold them in high esteem. Unless I’ve gone and picked myself another dud, I can only come to one conclusion: everyone is wrong and I am right, because this is yet more painfully turgid slop. “They Stretch Out Their Hands” is doom metal by numbers, trundling its way through large, slovenly riffs and murky black metal rasps like so many third-tier numpties before them. Elsewhere, “The Road Of Many Names” is even fucking worse, starting off in slightly more sprightly fashion with some awkward mid-paced riffing, flailing around haphazardly before deciding to lark about with some ill-advised melodies, leaving anyone still paying attention with the sense that they’ve drearily wasted another ten minutes of life along with four whole hard-won dollars.