"The Chicago doom-metal quartet shares how krautrock, gothic new age, psychedelic prog, and more informed their follow-up to last year’s Solace LP.
Even as a resident music journalist of Chicago for most of the past decade the city never quite felt like a hub for metal, overshadowed as it is by its legacies tied to jazz, hip-hop, and whatever secret third thing Wilco fits into. Yet the city is teeming with artists experimenting at the fringes of metal subgenres, with the thrash of Oozing Wound, the sludge of meth., and the mathy death metal of Wretched Blessing becoming common sites onstage at nearby venues, to say nothing of the politicized metalcore of the recently revived Racetraitor putting Chicago on the map for heavy rock subgenres."