An Autumn for Crippled Children - As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes (2021)

They did it again. The Dutch mysterious post-black metal An Autumn for Crippled Children released another great dose of gloomy anger in the form of heavy music. After last year's All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet they follow up with the same level of emotions on As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes.

This is a rather short one. Only half an hour but if it's so packed with the post-metal blizzard, it doesn't matter how long it is. It opens very fast with very heavy metal-like guitars and extremely black vocals. And these vibes don't leave for the next 30 minutes. It still feels like post-metal though: the screaming vocals are withdrawn and layered under the guitar noise, there's firm atmosphere and post-rock-like structures too. But it's very, very energetic - to the point where you want to start screaming yourself. The artists know how to spread the emotions through sounds and they do that so well.

There's some additional flavours like slightly sacral themes in the album's best track Splendour Unnoticed or interesting piano intrusions in Last Night I Believe You, but in general it is all about the tidal wave of slightly more post kind of metal and I'm here for it.

As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes costs 10 USD.

An Autumn for Crippled Children - All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet (2020) EN

An Autumn For Crippled Children - morfine EP (2017) EN

An Autumn For Crippled Children - Eternal (2016) EN

Check: Splendour Unnoticed

Country: The Netherlands

Genre: post-black metal

Label: Prosthetic Records

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Sarin - You Can't Go Back (2021)

Sarin, the Canadian post-metal band has a portfolio of heavy music counting three LPs now, thanks to the release of You Can't Go Back, an album pretty special for their discography. But more importantly an impressive dose of loud and massive music.

As the description or perhaps a legend already states, the band locked themselves in a studio for a week back in December in order to "create and capture something more energetic than their austere back catalogue". I don't know their previous releases but I trust this words as the pace of the album is particularly impressive. Try to keep up with When You Melt, it's almost impossible with the guitars and drums galloping on their way to the surprisingly moody ambient bridge and the unsurprisingly energetic finale. The post-metal elements here are mostly about the quality of the guitars but there's also the vocals, aggressive and ominously lurking from a distance, as if hidden under the massiveness of the music.

The band also underwent line-up changes and this is reflected in the emotional layer of the album, described as "an urgent and emotionally charged missive designed to document and celebrate a period of pressing uncertainty". This is probably best felt in the pinnacle of the album, Thick Mire with its absurdly fast and industrially-infused composition that just swipes you off the surface of the world.

You Can't Go Back costs 10 USD.

Check: Thick Mire

Country: Canada

Genre: energetic post-metal

Label: Prosthetic Records

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An Autumn for Crippled Children - All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet (2020) EN

What can I say, I really like the Dutch trio of mysterious, anonymous musicians (I hope I posted a picture with them, apparently sometimes they are being confused with... a Polish band Yliaster). So I couldn't miss the new album of An Autumn for Crippled Children, All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet  on my blog.

If someone reading the title fears that the band took a sharp turn and started playing something entirely different, can feel reassured as the album is not even a bit less poignant, crushing and loud than other ones. So we have the furious, extremely post-metal vocals that makes your throat hurt from only listening to it, that on the other hand is also a bit withdrawn to the backgrounds so the band's music can also safely be called blackgaze.

Meanwhile, the backgrounds are impressive with their flow, melodies and diversity more than with strictly metal noise. Everlasting is a great example here. On the other hand, there's no shortage of juicy guitars and tracks such as None More Pale are surely gonna address metal fans' taste. The best summary of the album is its finish in the aggressive ecstasy-filled Distance.

All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet costs 10 USD.

An Autumn For Crippled Children - morfine EP (2017) EN

Check: Distance

Country: The Netherlands

Genre: epic post-metal
Label: Prosthetic Records

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An Autumn for Crippled Children - All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet (2020) PL

Co mam powiedzieć, bardzo lubię holenderskie trio tajemniczych, anonimowych muzyków (mam nadzieję, że zdjęcie ich właśnie przedstawia, najwyraźniej czasem myleni są oni z... polskim zespołem Yliaster). W takim razie nie mogłem nie uwzględnić nowego albumu An Autumn for Crippled Children, All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet  na moim blogu. 

Jeśli ktoś po przeczytaniu tytułu obawia się nagłej zmiany w twórczości zespołu, może poczuć się uspokojony - nowa płyta nie jest ani trochę mniej zadziorna, przygniatająca i głośna od pozostałych. Mamy więc wściekły, ekstremalnie post-metalowy wokal, od którego samego słuchania boli gardło,  a który zespół chowa jednak trochę w tłach, dlatego i blackgaze dobrze oddaje atmosferę muzyki Holendrów. 

Tymczasem gitarowe tła imponują bardziej flowem, melodią i zróżnicowaniem niż jednoznacznie metalowym harmidrem. Everlasting jest tutaj świetnym przykładem. Z drugiej strony nie brakuje soczystych gitar, a takie kawałki jak None More Pale na pewno spodobają się fanom metalu. Najlepszym podsumowaniem całości jest jednak zamykający płytę, wypełniony agresywną ekstazą Distance.

All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet kosztuje 41 złotych (10 USD).

An Autumn For Crippled Children - morfine EP (2017) PL

Sprawdź: Distance

Kraj: Holandia

Szufladka: epic post-metal
Label: Prosthetic Records

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