Gnarl are a solo project from the United Kingdom that plays a mixture of harsh noise, drone, field recordings and doom metal and this is a review of his 2020 album "The Great Blackness" which will be released in November by Trepanation Recordings.
Harsh noises start off the album along with some heavy riffing which also adds elements of doom metal onto the recording. All of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while a small amount of melody can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing and at times the music also gets very repetitive sounding.
Most of the music is instrumental while drones and field recordings can also be heard in certain sections of the recording. Clean vocals can also be heard briefly on a few songs along with the music capturing an improv atmosphere as well as a couple of tracks also adding a bass guitar onto the album, all of the tracks also sound very different from each other and all of the music also sticks to a slower direction and towards the end a brief use of spoken word parts can also be heard.
Gnarl plays a musical style that takes harsh noise, drone, field recordings and doom metal and mixes them together to create a sound of his own. The production sounds very dark while the song themes revolve around the landscape and folklore of the British Isles.
In my opinion Gnarl is a very great sounding mixture of harsh noise, drone, filed recordings and doom metal and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this solo project. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Grey Mare" and "All Seasons End". 8 out of 10.
https://gnarl.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-blackness
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