Altar Of Plagues – Teethed Glory & Injury (Profound Lore)

Altar Of Plagues – Teethed Glory & Injury (Profound Lore)

Musicians are highly sensitive to influence from their physical environs. New digs can radically change a band’s vision, as it did for Altar Of Plagues. Main man James Kelly moved house from rural Cork to London, forcing him to shift his creative process mostly onto his computer. As a result, Altar Of Plagues largely dropped the pastoral post-black metal approach they had previously relied upon in favor of jarring, mechanistic compositions. Gears grind and bones break with each out-of-nowhere change in tempo or feel, but well-placed static washes keep the larger organism functioning. This is one of the most adventurous metal albums of the year; shame that Altar Of Plagues dissolved almost immediately afterward. –Doug [LISTEN]