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A devastating record that should be worshipped by all fans of NEUROSIS and forward thinking atmospheric sludge metal...I don’t say this lightly: M E T A is a masterpiece
M E T A, the new album from YLVA.
Out now worldwide via Pelagic Records and Translation Loss!
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Drawing influences from a deep well of experience in past outfits, YLVA, hailing from Melbourne, Australia's capital of underground music, create patient, dark and mysterious pieces of heavy music.
While the first half of this stunning debut album feels very condensed, driven by painfully low riffs and painfully slow drums, YLVA are thinning out their compositions thorughout the 2nd half of the album... making way for the beauty of dark, empty space. Tracks like the 13-minutes opus “The Fall” take their time until they reach the breaking point, the moment of collapse of the previously constructed massive sonic building – a collapse that is imminent from the very beginning of the song, or the construction process, if you want.
There is an unmistakably physical quality to YLVA's craft. One needs to let the frequencies do their work in order to fully grasp and be shaken by the essence of this band. “There is not a wasted note, beat, tone, noise or vocal line, but there’s also a beautiful level of restraint, both regarding how they write in levels of light and shade, but also in how no one in the band ever seemed to overplay”, HEAVY MAG summed up the YLVA live experience. “All of this works to make those moments, the big fuck-off sledgehammer hits, feel all the more impactful”.
“We have the ability to document, measure and learn from our social failures. We can achieve positive community development and social justice if the data is one day allowed to breathe from beneath and within”, comments guitarist / vocalist Mike Deslandes on the recurring theme throughout „Meta“. The album was recorded at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, mixed by Mike Deslandes and mastered by Dav Byrne at Iridium Audio.
You know that point where you have consumed perhaps just a little too much of your chosen intoxicate. That's this album.
Fucking heavy!!! Obstacle of Affliction
These dudes just blew me away!! I just love their music so much, the atmosphere and the heaviness created could easily flatten a city. I bow to the mighty SÂVER🤘 Darknight
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