The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here

Die Geschichte von Sheffield ist eine Erzählung aus Stahl, Ruß und Neuanfang und dass BA’AL aus genau dieser Kulisse stammen, hört man ihrem zweiten Album in jeder Sekunde an. Der Albumtitel „The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here“ ist daher kein bloßes Genre-Statement, sondern ein Ausdruck innerer Zerrissenheit zwischen Schönheit und Verfall. Die Band verbindet schwarzmetallischen Post Metal, Sludge und Doom zu einer Klanglandschaft, welche in gleichen Teilen erdrückt wie erhebt.. Ba’al – Zwi...

We are a quarter of a century away from the birth and blossoming of the post-metal movement, and the heavy music world is full of bands whose entire identity is wrapped in the works of NEUROSIS and ISIS, with perhaps some feral black metal thrown in for good measure. Many of these bands are great, so this is not a qualitative judgement, but many of them are also reliant on the formula that has been perpetuated ever since we all got excited about "Oceanic" and "Panopticon" and decided that voc...