Earth - HEX; or Printing in the Infernal Method

I like this album. I like it a lot. A lot.

As track 2 started playing (because the first track is sorta like ambient filler), I was amazed, simply by the approach/style. Slow, brooding, looming, dark, desolate. This is the kind of music to listen to on an evening spent in barren (western desert) farmlands (as suggested by the album cover lololol). Clean guitars tweaked by high degrees of reverb and delay, slow drumming. I don't even know how to describe this in terms of genres, because it's droney like their earlier material, but it's not drone doom; it's really slow but it's not doom metal, in fact it's not even metal at all, it's sort of like post-rock but it's not, and there's a huge Western (ie. wild wild west lol) influence. Hmm... ambient western slowcore? Honestly, I don't know. But that just means that you'd have to listen to this to determine for yourself. The lead guitar playing on Raiford (The Felon Wind) further supports my statement regarding the Western influence, with images of deputies, cowboys, sheriffs, tumbleweeds, saloons, quick drawing, and revolvers being immediately and vividly painted in my mind.

The songs started to sound a little repetitive and same-y for me as I continued the album, but that was really not much of a concern as the unique and unmatched atmosphere created was truly captivating.