Labels: Czar Of Bullets
Review by: Alex Deller
While many of the world’s middle-tier metal bands are currently trying to sound like Trap Them or Celeste, a few don’t seem to have received the memo. Take Unhold, for example. They play a resolutely trudgy brand of post-metal that owes a debt of infinite gratitude to both Isis and Neurosis. It’s not actually bad stuff in the grand scheme of things, and when the somewhat stock roars and somewhat stock riffs are intertwined with piano and female vocals they at least sound a little fresher than many bands playing this style of music in 2015. Where things do go awry, however, is the restrained feel of things: even when they rock out there’s a politeness in the delivery which ensures you’re more likely to nod unthinkingly along rather than risk tearing a tendon in your neck.