Winter Hours

Brooklyn's TOMBS deliver a stunning tour-de-force with their Relapse Records debut Winter Hours. The austere album brings together hypnotic harmonies, lush and introspective sonic textures, and a relentless intensity found in the most blackened metal to stunning effect. Winter Hours hits hard and resonates deeply within the listener.

Well, here's a sensation we don't get to experience much: Hearing a new metal album and wishing the songs were longer.

In another example of the hype matching reality, Brooklyn's TOMBS have created a monster with Relapse debut, "Winter Hours". The whole noise-meets-shoegaze-meets-pummel thing does not always work for me (usually because one aspect is pushed to the front at the expense of another, resulting in a wate...

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