An Ache for the Distance

I saw these guys live on their tour with Batillus and what a show it was. Psychedelic colors and music that keeps you focused. It's a great deal better than their debut album. This will be without a doubt on my end of the year list.

ok guys,along with machinehead,mastodon,these guys can put up a fight for cd of the year!!! listen to this worth every penny and more buy it and like it!!! the wolf n.y !!!

... And they're pretty good. It's "Metal", but if I had to get really descriptive I'd say it's kind of a sludgy, doomy, kind of metal... mixed with some pretty good vocal harmonies that include clean vocal singing (a rough clean singing voice, kind of like .. Eyes of Fire or Neurosis?) -- and a raspy black metal screaming, kind of like Wolves in the Throne Room. The music itself is slower paced, there are no blast beats or anything like that. It's a very "cerebral" type of listen.. kind of puts you in a trance. Again I'd draw paralells with WITTR, Agalloch, etc... they don't sound the same, but they all kind of provide that same style of listening experience to me... putting me in a trance. I took a risk buying this after only hearing a few samples, and had never heard of this band before, but I'm quite satisfied.