note: this is NOT the jazzy, thrashy, avant-garde "the mass" from oakland, ca .... this incarnation of the mass are from canada.... they are now called towards darknessfrom crucial blast:
First things first... nope, this isn't the Oakland indie thrash / klezmer dirge outfit with two releases on Crucial Blast. Yes, "our" THE MASS had the name first.
Moniker confusion and band alligience aside, we've gotta admit that Canada's THE MASS are pretty crushing, due in no small part to the prescence of former members of the 90's Canadian crustcore / powerviolence band SEIZED, who were sort of Canada's answer to Man Is The Bastard, doing the two-bassist thing with brutal, bleak, grindy hardcore. There's a little bit of SEIZED's apocalyptic churn here, but MASS are tipped further towards the "crusty epic post-metal" sound making the rounds... think WAKE UP ON FIRE and the crop of newer crust/grind bands that have been listening to alot of later NEUROSIS, GODSPEED! YOU BLACK EMPORER, and ISIS.
Mega heavy dirge metal played at a sludgy tar-crawl with monstrous vocals that breaks into subdued, haunting post-rock passages. Imagine early ISIS / early 90's NEUROSIS with a gnarlier doom/crust attack and minimalist MOGWAI-esque quiet parts. Gloomy, oppressive, and monstrously heavy.
the mass - towards darkness
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