Ultraviolet
Since their inception, Kylesa have translated instability into energy, outlasting membership changes and tragedies to create strange and compelling stylistic welds. But on their darker sixth album, the Savannah band sometimes let this genre pillaging overtake their songcraft.
Since their inception, Kylesa have translated instability into energy, outlasting membership changes and tragedies to create strange and compelling stylistic welds. But on their darker sixth album, the Savannah band sometimes let this genre pillaging overtake their songcraft.
Kylesa’s fifth album, 2010’s Spiral Shadow, didn’t lack atmosphere. At the same time, the sludgy-grooved Georgia rock band chiseled that atmosphere into something sharper, leaner, and catchier—not to mention curiously brighter. On Ultraviolet, the follow-up to Spiral Shadow, that brightness has all but bled out.…
Kylesa’s fifth album, 2010’s Spiral Shadow, didn’t lack atmosphere. At the same time, the sludgy-grooved Georgia rock band chiseled that atmosphere into something sharper, leaner, and catchier—not to mention curiously brighter. On Ultraviolet, the follow-up to Spiral Shadow, that brightness has all but bled out.…
There's a very good chance that Kylesa's Ultraviolet is the best metal album of 2013.
There's a very good chance that Kylesa's Ultraviolet is the best metal album of 2013.
Ultraviolet, the sixth album from Savannah-based heavies Kylesa, took two years to write, and brings with it a democratic shift in band dynamics.
Ultraviolet, the sixth album from Savannah-based heavies Kylesa, took two years to write, and brings with it a democratic shift in band dynamics.
Officially, "Ultraviolet" is KYLESA's first new studio album in three years, albeit it certainly seems a much shorter time than that, given last year's "From the Vaults, Vol. 1". The latter felt more like its own beast than a collection of outtakes and revamps. Thus it's hard to come to their newest...
Officially, "Ultraviolet" is KYLESA's first new studio album in three years, albeit it certainly seems a much shorter time than that, given last year's "From the Vaults, Vol. 1". The latter felt more like its own beast than a collection of outtakes and revamps. Thus it's hard to come to their newest...
The last time Kylesa took three years between records they came back with two drummers and their career high water mark up to that time, Static Tensions. In that case, they were back a mere year later with Spiral Shadow, an album that was well received as a whole, but dubbed a retread of its predece
The last time Kylesa took three years between records they came back with two drummers and their career high water mark up to that time, Static Tensions. In that case, they were back a mere year later with Spiral Shadow, an album that was well received as a whole, but dubbed a retread of its predece
With Ultraviolet, Kylesa gets dirtier, darker, colder, and grittier while simultaneously adhering to their already behemoth aesthetic.
With Ultraviolet, Kylesa gets dirtier, darker, colder, and grittier while simultaneously adhering to their already behemoth aesthetic.