One minute, you’re getting helpings of Slipknot and Code Orange the next it’s Emperor, Naglfar, and Sigh then blindsiding doses of Polyphia and Igorrr kick in. "Unpredictably hard-hitting but dramatically sweeping, the record is stream-of-consciousness view into the mind of a modern metal fan. While most of 鬼’s music seems like an attempt to navigate a difficult inner landscape, “Strychnine” is the kind of discordant fight music that reminds me of prime Converge. "Fixation‘s first single and opening track is called “Strychnine,” and it’s a frantic, furious two-and-a-half-minute wallop with a screeching guitar riff and a growling fight-music energy. "The Ember, the Ash has a sound dominated by loud, grimy guitars that are sharp as knives and a vocal style that screams (yes, literally) “-core.” Said screams are a bit of an acquired taste, but they suit the music well dark, it’s jagged, and symphonic for sure, with distant synths coating the grimy riffs with a gloomy edge that makes the song more digestible for those who aren’t big on deathcore and its related styles." Far more than any of their blackened peers, THE EMBER, THE ASH make this willful combining of disparate elements sound like the most natural thing in the world." "Blessed with a production that favors infernal squall over the immaculate squeak of a Pro Tools grid, "Fixation" loudly demonstrates its creators' allegiance to the dark side. Some might baulk at such a preposterous proposition on paper, but the sheer exuberance of the music makes it difficult not to be swept up in its bombast. Within, there's room for surprising detours such as the Spanish guitars on 'A Growing Emptiness' or the black-metal-goes-Muse approach that provides an outro for 'The Colossal Void'. Now that officials say the Lahaina fire is 80% contained, perhaps we'll start to see that more than ash gray remains.Īssociated Press reporter Jennifer Sinco Kelleher in Honolulu contributed to this report."The blueprint laid down throughout Fixation's 37 minutes is a curious hybrid of symphonic black metal and elegant metalcore. Here and there, people were walking around, seeming to begin assessing the devastation. I could see burned ships out in the water, which made me ponder the force of ember-carrying winds.įrom above, I also didn't expect to see people. But this looked to me like a small wildland fire that exploded as it hit homes and businesses. I'm used to seeing something like a 300,000 acre-fire (121,400 hectare-fire) burning down a little town. What seemed to be a large majority of the fire was in the town itself. I observed that the area of fire out in the trees and brush seemed very small compared to the amount of the town that was burned. Were drivers actively trying to flee and couldn't? What happened to them? They weren't parked on the side of the road. One sight made me worried and provided a grim clue of the chaos of approaching fire: Charred vehicles in the road along Front Street. I couldn't see any active flames amid pockets of wispy smoke. There was a neighborhood near the water that was completely gone - not a single structure remained. King Kamehameha III Elementary School was decimated, a mess of collapsed steel. It was so one-dimensional that it was hard to imagine the scenic town that was once here. Street after street after street was nothing but rubble and foundation.
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