Country: IrelandGenre: Black Metal, doom, sludge
Label: Profound Lore
Tracks: 4
The second album by the Irish black metallurgists Altar of Plagues, Mammal, consists of four songs-- "Neptune Is Dead", "Feather and Bone", "When the Sun Drowns in the Ocean", and "All Life Converges to Some Center". The group's proper 2009 debut, White Tomb, included a tune named "Through the Collapse: Gentian Truth". Based on all of those ostentatious handles, you'd be excused for dismissing Altar of Plagues outright as self-serious, heavy-handed darkness. But by phone from London, frontman James.
Kelly even has a chuckle at the expense of the title of his band's debut recording, First Plague: "It's quite silly now that I think of it." Kelly views his albums as extemporaneous time capsules, though, momentary documents of his focus and feelings at the time the music was made. Full of radical tangents and alien-to-black metal elements, Altar of Plagues suggest a Wolves in the Throne Room cousin more focused on frailty and struggle than majesty and grandeur. Using electronics and extended instrumental techniques, post-rock builds, and noise-rock comedowns, all embedded in big black metal sweeps, Altar of Plagues' Mammal captures Kelly's feelings on death and impermanence. If it's an encapsulation, it's the best he's ever had. (Pitchfork Review)
Kelly even has a chuckle at the expense of the title of his band's debut recording, First Plague: "It's quite silly now that I think of it." Kelly views his albums as extemporaneous time capsules, though, momentary documents of his focus and feelings at the time the music was made. Full of radical tangents and alien-to-black metal elements, Altar of Plagues suggest a Wolves in the Throne Room cousin more focused on frailty and struggle than majesty and grandeur. Using electronics and extended instrumental techniques, post-rock builds, and noise-rock comedowns, all embedded in big black metal sweeps, Altar of Plagues' Mammal captures Kelly's feelings on death and impermanence. If it's an encapsulation, it's the best he's ever had. (Pitchfork Review)
Altar of Plagues (website)
Purchase:Profound Lore Records
Altar Of Plagues-Mammal LP (2011)
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