Somnolent are a duo from the United States that plays a mixture of industrial, ritual, dark ambient, harsh noise, black and death metal and this is a review of their 2021 album "The Infernal Expanse" which will be released in December as a joint effort between Sentient Ruin Laboratories and Cyclic Law.
Dark ambient style synths and drones start off the album while all of the tracks are also very long and epic in length. Industrial style beats are also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording along with the music also having its ritualistic moments and when the music goes into a heavier direction a great amount of blast beats can be heard.
Vocals are a mixture of grim black metal screams and cavernous yet bestial death metal growls while dark sounding melodies are also added into some of the guitar riffing. The heavier sections of the songs also add in a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and harsh noises can also be heard in certain sections of the recording, elements of war metal can also be heard in some of the faster parts of the music and spoken word parts can also be heard briefly on the closing song.
Somnolent plays a musical style that takes industrial, ritual, dark ambient, harsh noise and bestial black/death metal and mixes them together to create a sound of their own. The production sounds very dark and lo-fi while the lyrics cover apocalyptic themes.
In my opinion Somnolent are a very great sounding ritualistic mixture of industrial, dark ambient, harsh noise, black and death metal and if you are a fan of t hose musical genres, you should check out this duo. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "i" AND "III". 8 out of 10.
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