A Storm Of Light is american Post-Doom Metal, formed by Josh Graham from Neurosis. In the best traditions of Neurosis! Atmospheric and beauty! Best recommendations!It sounds like some Neurosis fans decided to try their hand a drone doom. A closer look, and you can see why, as guitarist and keyboardist Josh Graham has had some involvement with Neurosis. It’s especially apparent with when you can hear the later period Neurosis, with the cleaner droning vocals, drums that are almost tribal at times, and generally windy, sparse, open landscape. The attack though is a bit slower, focused on drawing out the power from those long drags with the guitars. While these guys do wear the Neurosis influence right on their sleeve, it’s like they took the ideals of said band and forked them off into a different direction. The execution isn’t made to have blatantly obvious power from superficial elements, like beating the listener with the instruments. Instead the heavy here you can feel from the raw emotion pouring off. As always, trying to explain bands that fit into the same world that Neurosis does is extremely difficult not familiar with the band or their brethren. As much as I can tell you this a more metallic, doomier take on “metalgaze” (as some have labeled this genre), all the talk of landscapes, and atmospheres, which tend to be the chosen terms to describe this style won’t be enough.

MINSK returns to offer With Echoes in the Movement of Stone, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to The Ritual Fires of Abandonment. Produced by Sanford Parker and the band, With Echoes… burns slow through twisted, psychedelic post-rock with equal parts bombast and deliberation. Songs unfold like the cosmos before collapsing inward under the crushing weight of Minsk's signature wall-of-sound. In the end Minsk succeeds where other bands fail by marrying the range of human emotions with a vast sonic tapestry to create a provocative, stirring and supremely heavy album experience.