MP3: Hebosagil - River
It turns out I was hasty is my assessment of "Big sun", the first track released from Hebosagil's new album "Colossal", because the rest of the record is totally slays. At first I was put off by how much slower and doomier the material is, but once I got used to it, I was able to properly appreciate its greatness. There's some serious studio wizardry going on here too, though it might not be obvious to a lot of folks. I'm not sure how they do it, but they manage to push every single instrument way into the red (listen to the drum rumble on "Cosmic"!), yet it remains clear and crisp enough to individually pick them out of the mix. And it seriously is the most blown-out, fucked-up brutal sound too, like, as I've said before, Sunlight Studios to the nth degree. That bass is absolutely monstrous and all the guitar leads are pure scorchers. In a word: awesome.
"River" is by far the most raging track on the album, so that's the one I'm gonna share today. It's not exactly the best representation of what the rest of the album has to offer as I'm sure you can imagine since it's not doomy at all, but screw it -- it floored me when I first heard it, so that's what you're gonna get. Easily one of the best heavy releases of 2008 thus far.
Hebosagil - River