YEAR OF NO LIGHT

This was a band that i found out about and immediately said to myself, "what??? why havent i heard of this since 2006 when it was released? this shit is fucking fantastic, why didn't we get word of it in the states for so long?"

upon hearing one or two myspace tracks, i bought their cd NORD and it is a fucking masterpiece. Sure, people can draw comparisons in their unique sound to other acts that have come before, as varied as The Cure to Sunn o))), but this piece of music is so timely and visionary...

in my opinion, i think the art-metal scene has yet to hit its heydey, and i think only since around 2005 when bands like intronaut and pelican were getting post-isis enough, did we to really start to do the genre justice.

its booming now and there are so many great acts out with this sound - voyager, pelican, rosetta... and all of these acts and Year of no light all manage to keep from being redundant.

nord takes you through every emotion typical in the day in the life of emotionally charged (or damaged) person- very orderly and structured parts of songs, then beautiful dreamy parts that wash over you and you realize 7 minutes of them have just passed, chaotic, psychotic, figuring itself out as it goes, and pummelingly brutal parts.

there is not a dull spot to be had on nord, which is getting harder and harder to say for albums these days. for me, its so refreshing to hear something that had vision behind it, it was clear that thought was put into how the songs would flow, and what the scope of the album was going to be, ahead of time.

these guys are fucking great. oh yeah - and they shred out of france! +1,000EXP





http://www.myspace.com/yearofnolight