No One Wants to Speak About It

Tape version with digital download available at tridroid.bandcamp.com "The ones who got us in this mess will never get us out." Seattle's Adzes crafts dirges of atmospheric sludge with elements of noise rock, post-metal, and shoegaze, a musical counterpart to the oppressive green and grey of the winters of the Pacific Northwest. Lone member Forest Bohrer's snarling bass collides with thundering drums amidst roiling guitar feedback on songs that howl protest against the accelerating human and environmental crises produced by our capitalist system. Adzes is doomy and bleak music for a world on fire. Following 2018's ISIS- and Godflesh-influenced Climate//Capital EP, a bleak look at the havok wrought by capital on a personal and global scale, No One Wants to Speak About It expands both sonic palette and outlook. Clearer, more spacious production reveals a grimy bass presence and a wide range of influences, from Paradise Lost's gothic doom-death to 90s grunge and shoegaze and even to Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. These songs continue the too-timely lyrical themes of the EP, zooming out to excoriate rising fascist sentiment and endless imperialism, but also turning inward to focus on personal stuggles and the reality of one's mortality. Frantic riffing, mournful sludge, and moody post-metal carry the listener through a harrowing but cathartic listen. On this record Adzes establishes itself as a forceful voice of dissent in a burning world. FFO: ISIS, Godflesh, Kowloon Walled City, early Mastodon "Building on influences from that range from doom and sludge to industrial, noise rock and shoegaze, No One Wants to Speak About It is cold and groovy with a sense that things could break down at any moment." - Vince Bellino, Decibel www.decibelmagazine.com/2020/06/22/five-must-hear-sludge-releases-from-2020/ "...leaving you feeling like you’ve been trudging through enormous slabs of concrete." - Valley of Steel valleyofsteel.net/2020/05/27/adzes-climate-capital-a-forest-digging-in-the-dirt-2019-no-one-wants-to-speak-about-it-2020/ "...a thick soundscape of sludgy, shoegaze-influenced metal.​" - Alex Payne, Sleeping Village Reviews www.sleepingvillagereviews.com/reviews/adzes-no-one-wants-to-speak-about-it-review "His music combines elements of black metal, punk, noise, doom, hardcore, and plenty of other heavy flavors, and the eight tracks that stretch over about 50 minutes....smashes through boundaries as he puts together these songs, splashing in every influence at his disposal, which makes for a rich, diverse listen." - Brian Krasman, Meat Mead Metal meatmeadmetal.com/2020/06/26/