The funderground tryhards forgot to create music in their quest for image, and the mainstreamer emoclones neutralize musical potential in order to be socially inoffensive, but nature is healing itself as Shores of Null make a hybrid between power metal, doom metal, and post-metal that promotes beauty.
If we accept the “wanderer above the clouds” form of Romanticism as the basis of metal, doom metal is its memento mori in the best pre-Victorian tradition, bringing forth the beauty in contrast expressed in a world where loveliness exists but also must die.
Shores of Null take a power metal approach to lead vocals and layer it over mid-paced doom metal with rhythmic influences from Tool and Nevermore, but mostly a Candlemass sense of vinegar and blood melodies winding down from wide potential into grim diminished scale realities.
During the process however it builds on its own riffs for a contrast that broadens a negative view into a balanced one full of asymmetric possibilities, and in doing so, makes life more beautiful than death, if even for a brief moment before the current sweeps it back under to grey neutrality.
Tags: Doom Metal, power metal, shores of null
This is gay, but I like it.
Had to throw on some Dead Infection after that.
Kylie Minogue officially defeated Metal, besides this release is 2023. My hope is that there is another Shores of null with the same album title and artwork, cause this doesn’t sound like anything that’s just has been described.
The press release indicated 2024, so this may be a re-issue.