Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light
Buddy, I know you're a fan. I thought this was better than the previous album, but it didn't have my full attention at the time. Definitely moments my ears pricked up though, and I know I'll be coming back to it.
Just putting it on now. I'm literally only familiar with And As We Have Seen The Storm We Have Embraced The Eye, but that's a really fucking high bar to clear. Their first two albums are on streaming now so I'll probably check those out at some point too.
Yeah this probably won't top their last album for me (not like I was expecting it to), but this is still really great. I see some people on RYM are disappointed it's not as heavy, which I kind of understand, but it's not
that much of a departure - the awesome riffs and old-school lead guitars are still here in full force and that's all I wanted, really. I suppose it has a bit more variety than their last album too, though the clean, spacey stuff isn't as interesting as the heavy-metal-meets-death-metal-meets-rock-n-roll stuff to me. The title track's also giving me some Pale Folklore era Agalloch vibes, which is always a plus.
But yeah to anyone who's digging this, you owe it to yourself to check out their last album if you haven't heard it already.