After toiling for three years in obscurity, this dark, brooding, quasi-Goth metal trio from San Francisco has started to get the notoriety they deserve.
What has Integrity been doing since their last album? Practicing, changing drummers, playing shows, and conceptualizing the divine destruction of humankind.
Simple horror piano, mountainous powerchords, gongs, timpanis, bellowing melodies like those you might expect from a tavern filled with burly, drunk warriors.
Expect the unexpected, as blast beats overlap swinging sax while walls of noise merge into pan flute parts – all throwing your head for motion overload.
Using opulent, romantic and classical formations, Elend twists the overly consonant traditions and skews the melodies to redirect them in the darkness.
Looking for the perfect music to listen to while role-playing? If you are, Mortiis’ fourth album, regally entitled Emperor of a Dimension Unknown, is for you.
Imagine an Yngwie student chopping up those scales to a sterile progressive power metal wank littered with meaty guitar hooks and dickless warbling vocals.