Formerly known as The Great Redneck Hope (now that’s a band name!), Colorado Springs’ Matterhorn just dropped their first release in what will become a diptych. While “Vol 1 The World Began Without Man” comes with just five songs, it does span over 30 minutes of metal. Ominous metal.
Describing the end of the world is fitting subject matter for a metal band and so Matterhorn go on their not so merry way doing just that. It’s all instrumental mind you, they let the strings and drums do all the talking. Which works out nicely for them. It also makes that comparisons to acts such as Mastodon, Baroness, Pelican and Isis are never too far away.
While they arguably haven’t chosen the easiest genre, they do manage to compel throughout the duration of the album with a barrage of riffs and plenty of unexpected twists. I do however think it was a smart move on their behalf to keep things around the half hour mark. An hour of this would be a bit much… there’s only so much ‘end of the world’ drama one can take… yes, Roland Emmerich, I’m talking about you and “2012”!
Score: 6.5 out of 10
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