Labels: Toxic Assets
Review by: Alex Deller
Been meaning to review this for over a year now. Problem is, how to grapple with it? The thing is massive. Seriously massive. And to think I had little to no expectations, bar the fact that one guy was wearing a Kerosene 454 t-shirt in their band photo. While I do detect some of K454’s slinky yet muscular math rock dynamics, this is nonetheless a metal release through and through. Huge, swarthy, glowering metal that does its best to be uncategorisable. They mix torrential black metal with marauding High On Fire-isms; gloopily melodic vocals with howls of pestilential rage and those aforementioned twists n’ turns that suggest the jagged likes of KEN mode or Unpersons. While other bands are splicing similar genres, few do it as well as Lions Of Tsavo: the music is fluid, the songs are bold and the joins are so seamless that there’s not a stray stitch or a centimetre of scar tissue to be found. It’s a brilliant release, and I really can’t wait to hear more.
Read an interview with Lions Of Tsavo here