Heirs - Hunter
Three minutes into this and I was already bored. That’s never good. Beating one riff into the floor over and over again doesn’t make it more interesting. The fact that it’s not brutal, aggressive or even heavy doesn’t help either. This is so passive that it makes This Empty Flow sound like Bonded by Blood-era Exodus. Hunter is about as interesting as watching paint dry and I have the distinct feeling that I’m not on the appropriate hallucinogenic drugs to make this album worthwhile. The final track, “Never Land” is supposed to be a Sisters of Mercy cover, but it sounds nothing like the original. Then again, I don’t think taking two riffs from Sisters of Mercy and beating them to death for thirteen minutes qualifies as a cover. A desecration, maybe, but not a cover. Heirs is referred to as “Post-Doom” in their press release, but this isn’t Doom. Some of the members of this band may have wanted to play Doom at some point, but my guess is that they sucked so bad that they had to put the word “post” in front of it to sound like they intended to be this pointless. Hunter sounds like background music for those shitty art house films that try to be all “bleak” and “symbolic,” but are essentially exercises in deconstructed masturbation. How this band made it to a second release - and found a label to release it - is beyond me.
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Koji Kabuto said:
Why didn’t Manitou review this one?! He really liked their previous album…
Manitou said:
Great question Koji and the answer is I’ve been on a hiatus of sorts. While it’s helpful for the sake of consistency, it can beneficial to get another perspective ... especially for anyone who didn’t agree with my review of Fowl. I haven’t heard this album yet, but I wouldn’t have given Heirs first release, Alchera, as high of a rating as Fowl.
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