Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated

Providence-to-Portland duo the Body's second of two collaborations with New Orleans’ Thou is a match made of mania and menace. During the last decade, both of these doom metal squads have issued records at startling clips, and You, Whom I Have Always Hated is a remarkably cohesive and singular album.

Much of the success of this collaborative LP is down not just to how well Thou and The Body's similarities complement one another, but how well their divergences create a wonderfully discordant friction.

Portland, Oregon via Providence, Rhode Island doom noise duo the Body grew more and more prone to collaboration as their tenure wore on, inviting both noise artists like the Haxan Cloak and gothic choral group the Assembly of Light Choir to take part in their always shifting, always brutal sonic assaults.