Gin - Cobalt

This album which features a very melancholy and different album cover of an photographed soldier seems to be gaining a lot of plaudits this year. I decided, I had to have a listen. It's eclectic and dark with harsh vocals and drumming that ranges from intense to subtle. The acoustic guitar starts to the tracks are rather impressive and my favourite track is probably "Dry Body" which is hypnotic, sounding like an ancient chant, really very dark indeed. One of the band members is depoloyed in Iraq and it seems like this experience has surely effected him to come up with something as black as this. There are a lot of black metal bands that seem to be ...  Read the complete review