HOWLS OF EBB — Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows

MetalMusicArchives.com — the ultimate metal music online community, from the creators of progarchives.com

HOWLS OF EBB - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows cover
4.50 | 2 ratings | 1 review
Buy this album from MMA partners

Album · 2016

Filed under Death Metal
By HOWLS OF EBB

Tracklist

1. The 6th Octopul'th Grin (5:31)
2. Cabals Of Molder (6:14)
3. Maat Mons' Fume (8:14)
4. 7 Ascetic Cinders, 8 Dowries Of GA'nOm (7:09)
5. Gaunt Vertigo (1:20)
6. Subliminal Lock - A Precursor To Vengeance (6:23)
7. The Apocryphalic Wick (7:21)

Total Time 42:12

Line-up/Musicians

- RoTn'kbLisK / Drums
- zELeVthaND / Vocals, Guitars, Bass

About this release

Released by I, Voidhanger Records, April 15th, 2016.

Cassette version released by Caligari Records. Limited to 200 copies.

Vinyl version released by Nuclear War Now! Productions, May 15th, 2016.

Thanks to adg211288 for the addition

Buy HOWLS OF EBB - CURSUS IMPASSE: THE PENDLOMIC VOWS music

More places to buy metal & HOWLS OF EBB music

HOWLS OF EBB CURSUS IMPASSE: THE PENDLOMIC VOWS reviews

Specialists/collaborators reviews

adg211288
As someone who listens to a lot of albums from different genres of metal, I have to say that most of the them have very standard sounds at their core, even the more adventurous and progressive ones. Most have comparable artists/releases. Every so often though there is a release like Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows (2016), which is the second full-length album by American two-piece act Howls of Ebb (formerly three-piece). It's an album where the genre elements going into it are familiar but what comes out sounds unlike anything else I've ever come across.

Genre descriptions I've previously read for Howls of Ebb did little to prepare me for what Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows was going to sound like. Usually these guys seem to be described as being somewhere between death and black metal and to a certain extent they do deliver a blackened death metal sound, with a little bit of doom metal creeping in as well. However what actually characterises this record and makes it stand out is how experimental it is. Even when playing what could be considered a fairly standard section of death metal music Howls of Ebb somehow manage to sound different and even weird. Even their song titles could be considered unusual with names like 7 Ascetic Cinders, 8 Dowries of gA'nOm or The 6th Octopul'th Grin. Calling the album an avant-garde blackened death metal album wouldn't be far off the mark, though of course other listeners may come up with their own classification. And that's the beauty of this rather twisted sounding album, it doesn't seem to give a damn about any sort of genre boundaries.

This unusual kind of sound has made Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows an intriguing release to keep coming back to and explore a little more each time, but I honestly couldn't say after even a couple of listens whether I actually liked what these guys were doing. It's instantly interesting and impressive because its different, but it took me several more listens to decide on whether or not it was actually in a good way. I eventually decided that it definitely was, but the album didn't instantly sell itself to me, so it could never be considered the kind of album that would serve as a go-to for quick thrills (unless you really like weird stuff, I guess). But as I've found with some other releases put out by the I, Voidhanger Records label Howls of Ebb have created something that rewards the patient listener who will take their time and really dig deep into their music. It's much like Spectral Lore's III (2014) and Midnight Odyssey's Shards of Silver Fade (2015) in that respect, though its significantly shorter running time does make it easier to digest than either of those albums, though those aren't weird like this is, so the comparison is still valid.

Members reviews

No HOWLS OF EBB CURSUS IMPASSE: THE PENDLOMIC VOWS reviews posted by members yet.

Ratings only

  • 666sharon666

Write/edit review

You must be logged in to write or edit review

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Hin helga kvöl Atmospheric Sludge Metal
SÓLSTAFIR
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Cycles of Suffering Black Metal
BURIAL OATH
Buy this album from MMA partners
Facilis Descensus Averno Death Metal
SAEVUS FINIS
Buy this album from MMA partners
Merciless Crossover Thrash
BODY COUNT
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us