Queen of Heathens - Ethereality
Somewhere underneath six hundred and sixty-six layers of reverb is the new album by Queen of Heathens. I’m serious. This has a shit ton of reverb on it. The guitars are so thick with it that I can’t tell if there are actual riffs or if The Cartographer (apparently the sole member of this band based on what is written on their bandcamp.com site) is just rubbing the guitar up against someone’s balls. On the plus side, I can’t say that Queen of Heathens is blatantly aping someone else. On the minus side, it still sounds like absolute shit. If you took a shitty rehearsal tape from some fourth-rate Black Metal band from 1993 and played it at full blast from the bottom of a network of caves, this is what it would sound like if you were listening to it from the mouth of the cave. This makes the production on Satanic Blood (Von) sound like the latest release by the Rolling Stones. I imagine that there is someone out there that thinks Ethereality is the new epitome of “kvlt,” but to me, this is a borderline unlistenable mess. And worse yet, this is their third album. If this shows “progression” then I definitely don’t want to hear the first two. Maybe in twenty years, Queen of Heathens will finally release an album that is actually listenable, but frankly I don’t see that happening.
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