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haarp’s new record may be titled Husks, but in my mind it might as well be called “Porridge” because it does more than a few things just right. Obviously adjusted way below standard tuning, this album is slow and low enough to qualify as sludge/doom, but still retains the ‘rock’ part of rock ‘n roll–it isn’t so bottomed out that it can’t be followed.
And then “singer” Shaun Emmons shows up with his vocals that are reminiscent of hardcore, but pushed to a deeper level of dark and heavy. I can appreciate a man who brings just the right amount of growl and grunt.
As a follow-up to haarp’s first full-length, The Filth, we get less of a departure and more of a continuation of that harrowing sound on the three 9-minute-plus tracks of Husks. Why fix what ain’t broke? Like I said, Husks is just right. We will be streaming the album in full via the players below until the day of release on Tuesday, September 18th.
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Thanks for this guys, great stuff. Those vocals rock.
More protracted Filth. Awesome stuff.
Man, the corpse paint and falsetto vocal crowd are bummed about IO this week…haarp, Hydrahead, Fight Amp, and Coverge are false. And untroo.
Well, whatever…y’all can have chit chat about dragon and wizard metal next week I giess!
Hey, we gave away Funeral Mist albums this week. Credit where it’s due!
True, I just noticed a marked drop off in comments because no one can discuss the merits of Jazz music’s influence on Blind Guardian’s fifth album in any of last weeks pieces!
True! But that crowd need not fear; we should have some insanely nerdy pieces going up this week.
This EP is a big improvement over their last album…this is more in line with their early EPs (focused, cohesive and lots of memorable riffs), which are well worth tracking down…super nice guys to boot…and, yes, the vocalist is a fucking beast.
I have read several reviews on this album and heard a lot of the material. I feel that credit needs to go where credit is due. The band lost a significant piece and since then the band has never been the same. The bass player you see in all of the current images did not write, play, or record this album and is just standing in currently. This album would NOT be as successful as it is had it not been for the creativity and drive of their previous bass player Ryan P.
Says a lot when the driving force leaves and the band collapses a year later…..RIP.