ACROSS TUNDRAS — Across Tundras / Lark's Tongue (review)

ACROSS TUNDRAS — Across Tundras / Lark's Tongue album cover Split · 2013 · Stoner Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Genre: psychedelic sludge doom

Across Tundras have operated in the underground over the last couple of years and to say that they are a very productive band would not be an understatement. Earlier this year, they released a split with their allies in Lark's Tongue. Both bands contribute two tracks each.

The two Across Tundras tracks are quite heavy and fall somewhere between sludge metal and hard rock. The opener "Low Haunts" starts out with sweeping instrumental textures recalling the psychedelia of the 1970s, but with a darker twist. When the song proper kicks in, the listener is treated to heavy and doom-laden hard rock with a slight hint of Black Sabbath influence and a progressive inclination. "Crux to Bear" is a more straightforward heavy rocker with a more aggressive edge.

Lark's Tongue's two contributions, while heavy, have more in common with dark alternative rock than with metal as such. But 'Aluminum' nonetheless seems to contain a couple of references to Alice in Chains.

Dark and introvert, the four tracks on the EP should appeal to fans of shoegaze music, in particular sludgy and psychedelic sludge rock.
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