An album release from Shadow of Everest delivers a massive and vast yet progressive and hard-hitting metal and alternative rock soundscape all driven by anthemic choruses, deepening grooves, and shredding guitars along with an intense and robust character that you end up lashing on to right from the get-go.
The Where Giants Die album is riddled with this immense set of performances by all parts.
The drumming is super in the pocket and does indeed create those deep-rooted grooves but does so in a heavy-hitting and fun way so that the songs have loads of fills, come through colorful yet edgy at the same time, and always have an impact.
The guitar work across this record is ridiculous and does indeed add to that progressive approach but also gives these songs an immense Sonic presence and the riffs created are mathy, can be borderline death metal, and utilize pitch harmonics for the fun of it.
The vocals add in animated aspect to everything because they can be bendy and soulful, but they can also be aggressive and edgy when they want to so the songs end up feeling alive and breathing in their own way a lot of the time and that to me is a beautiful thing.
The dynamic balance that these guys deliver throughout this record is unbelievable and for them to be able to pull together this record that's got gigantic riffs and these vast and expansive underbellies is really impressive especially because the energy on this record in particular, is very similar to that of a live performance.
It feels as if the players in this band are feeding off of each other's energies the entire time throughout this record and maybe, some of these songs were recorded partly live on the floor because that would be one of the only ways I could expect these guys to be able to pull off such a massive and intense electric energy throughout this entire album.
This is one of those records that you don't just listen to one or two songs because if you do, you'll be missing out on the entire spectrum of what this album actually has to offer and just to give you a little bit of an idea, some of these tracks are interludes, yet some of them are 8 minutes long so you have this experimental and driving record with an unreal level of musicianship that really can be quite mind-blowing at times but it also comes across with a punch, with some catchiness, with riffs that stick in your head, and with a robust and lush personality.
It's been quite some time since I've heard a record that blew me away on the level that this record did, and it wasn't just because of the heaviness of it. It was because of how these guys have that expansive and intense approach that doesn't let up throughout the whole record and you can tell that their level of creativity in working together to create something that someone could get engulfed in is something incredible.
Now, it might sound like I'm sucking up but I'm certainly not I promise you that.
To give you some frame of reference, if you are a guitar player, a drummer, a bassist, or even a vocalist, you're going to still be blown away by this record and how the songs are written and performed.
This is a musician's album but it's also a music lover's album.
A massive opus of a rock release from Shadow of Everest, to this one and make sure you have enough time to listen to this album from beginning to end.
Trust me, it's how you want to do it.
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