Blight Year is a cosmic black metal bulldozer, On Anti-God Hand's second album, frontman Will Ballantyne enlists engineer Colin Marston (Krallice, Indricothere, Gorguts, etc.) and powerhouse drummer Greg Fox (Liturgy, Ben Frost, Colin Stetson). Together, they veer from pummelling odd time signatures and downtuned riffs into ascendant, widescreen climaxes that subvert tired black metal tropes. Ballantyne is an in-demand performer, playing guitar for DEBBY FRIDAY's breakout album GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop), writing and performing electronic music as City, and performing endurance performance art with Chinese collective TRANCE. The result is an ideological and sonic crystallization that pushes Anti-God Hand's cosmic black metal into something still more emphatic, distinctive, dynamic.1. Out of the Tunnels, Into the Heavens2. Barge of Light3. The Horde at the End of Language4. Endless Brightness5. Demon Sniper6. Warped and Opalescent Swords7. Chaoscene Hell8. Hyperincursion of the Theocentre9. Held
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Blight Year is a cosmic black metal bulldozer, On Anti-God Hand's second album, frontman Will Ballantyne enlists engineer Colin Marston (Krallice, Indricothere, Gorguts, etc.) and powerhouse drummer Greg Fox (Liturgy, Ben Frost, Colin Stetson). Together, they veer from pummelling odd time signatures and downtuned riffs into ascendant, widescreen climaxes that subvert tired black metal tropes. Ballantyne is an in-demand performer, playing guitar for DEBBY FRIDAY's breakout album GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop), writing and performing electronic music as City, and performing endurance performance art with Chinese collective TRANCE. The result is an ideological and sonic crystallization that pushes Anti-God Hand's cosmic black metal into something still more emphatic, distinctive, dynamic.1. Out of the Tunnels, Into the Heavens2. Barge of Light3. The Horde at the End of Language4. Endless Brightness5. Demon Sniper6. Warped and Opalescent Swords7. Chaoscene Hell8. Hyperincursion of the Theocentre9. Held