Pinkish Black’s self-titled 2012 debut was a somber and disquieting no-wave take on doom metal. Its follow-up found the band going bigger and weirder still. Razed To The Ground is heavier, more melodic, and more captivating than the band’s excellent 2012 release. It shifted from grinding, atonal, primal industrial-goth to bleep-bloopy space-metal to something spacious, somber, and quite beautiful. It’s a perfectly appropriate companion to hallucination-inducing bong sessions, but it’s also really emotionally raw and immediate in ways that previous Pinkish Black material only hinted at. –Michael [LISTEN]