When brutalities and indignities are piled one on top of the other, like corpses in a mass grave or shells ejected from a smoking gun, it can be easy to forget them, each in turn. For a new tragedy pushes the last off the front page. Each new barbarity wipes the last from our minds. We become inured to the steady drip of sadism. Numb to the slow erosion of the humanity in our souls. So we are only truly able to comprehend what they’ve done to us when we speak the name of each cruelty, we cast the blame on each culprit, we speak the name of each victim, we cast the blame for each savagery. Only then can we see the bleak picture that these endless dots together create when viewed as a whole. Their masterpiece of incessant contempt. Their opus of blood and agony. A study in indignity.
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
It's a cool journey. Beautiful atmospheric blackened doom ambient combo. Sometimes like Pink Floyd playing funeral doom. Hypnotic album from Hypnotic Dirge records. Wow! Dmitry Nevozhay