Whereas we’re positively a fan of crunchy and clean dynamics inside a music, it’s additionally makes for a great sonic steadiness utilizing the strategy from one music to the following, one thing that UK post-metal-sludge/doom outfit Vandampire do properly on their debut full-length Hope Scars. This eight-track options loads of melancholy drenched sludge riffs that exist comfortably betwixt and between placid, clear melodicism and buzzy noise passages. The quartet tip the cap to Kyuss one second, Radiohead the following and discover a comfy spot within the steel bins on the document retailer not removed from Neurosis. You get the image, now give it a hear.
Hope Scars was was recorded on the Bookhouse and Hackney Street Studios, London in 2023 and 2024. It was produced by Jack Ashley and mastered by Magnus Lindberg (Cult Of Luna). It’s set for launch on cassette and digitally by way of Ripcord Data on October 31. Get yours right here.
The band summed up Hope Scars thusly:
“Hope Scars is us throwing every thing we’ve acquired into one document: heavy, messy, emotional. It feels like what it feels wish to collapse and rebuild. We conceived this document as a form of audio journey from metropolis to nation, tracing our personal transitions by way of main life modifications. It shifts naturally between sprawling, atmospheric passages and moments of pure, punishing depth, all revolving, in fact, across the riff.”
