The Ash Eaters

 The Ash Eaters is one of the most impressive and interesting bands I've lately heard of and I consider myself extremely lucky for giving them a chance and checking them out.So,I'm writing this review cause I hope that you might feel the same sometime!The main reason for me to fall in love with them(and especially their "Ruining You" album) was their absolutely unique approach and the fact that they manage to compose catchy and memorable pieces (or riffs at least) despite their unorthodox ways.

 It is really hard to describe their music and so would be the genre classification,but who cares about labels?Just listen for yourselves and gradually you'll get lost in a maze of dissonance.The rythms created by the discordant guitar patterns are constantly changing which leads you to the impression that this band consists of mentally sick members.They must be really insane for coming up with so complicated structures.The guitars are tight and along with the overall weird production may give you the feeling of frostbite or being in a cold,almost frozen lake at the midwinter..yeah,it would be really COLD.The riffs are up- and sometimes mid-paced,bathed in melancholy and nostalgia,always played in a cold, frosty-style.Some of them feel like turning into music a serial-killer's way of thinking..trully an astonishing experience!

 Productionwise the guitars are dominating and the drums and the vocals(when present) are laid back on the mix.As for the vocals,(they are absent in the "Ruining You" album) they're uniquely performed as the music in general.Two of their last three releases,"The Cruel Side"(EP) and the "Ruining You" album,are phenomenal executions of claustrophobic, -mostly-instrumental, chaotic post-black(?) mixed with blues and post-punk elements(just for the sake of giving a possible genre classification) that really got me instantly.I hope they'll do the same for you.
Recommended tracks:"Ruining You","No Road Back","Lightning Strikes"The Cruel Side (EP) (2011)
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Ruining You (2012)
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