Last year was full of a lot of metalcore releases, with new stuff from Converge, The Armed and the final release from Every Time I Die leading the charge. Vein.fm’s This World Is Going to Ruin You shows that 2022 is looking like another promising year for the genre. The album wears its influences on its sleeves.
On Dissolution Wave, Cloakroom shows that they know the assignment and end up delivering the best album of their career. The band seems ready to reel in some of the riff-driven songwriting of their previous records and hone in more on atmosphere and soundscapes accompanying more bare boned songwriting from Doyle Martin.
There’s beauty in the darkness. On Bloodmoon: I — a collaboration from Converge and Chelsea Wolfe, along with Stephen Brodsky of Cave In and Mutoid Man — there is more than enough of both. What started as a live collaboration has resurfaced with eleven tracks plunging you into the cauldron of Converge at their spaciest.
