A stunning artistic achievement from a sadly defunct band
In a beautifully-packaged and designed cardboard sleeve, Glasgow foursome Snowblood present their third and final record, and what a record it is too. Inhabiting the space between post rock and doom metal, they take what is in some respects a cross of two genres which should potentially work really well and somehow weave it into something even better than the sum of its parts would suggest possible.
Failing to title either the album itself or any of the four tracks contained within would for some bands be unthinkable; but in Snowblood’s case, correct; simply allowing the music to speak for itself. Not that you should expect they would be to any degree interested in commercial concerns – or even what anyone outside the band thinks of them. The shortest song on here is over 10 minutes long; there is no compromise of any kind that could be allowed to dilute their artistic vision within a million miles of this record, and it is all the better for it.
Such a pure piece of sonic art will obviously hold appeal to a relatively small range of people, and that’s all the better. Those who find this record will cherish it for its depth, its emotional power, and the vast, undeniable crescendos to which these songs build. Beauty incarnate, twisted but pure.
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Eddie Thomas
