Throne – Avoid The Light (2012)

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Featuring 41 minutes of solid Southern/Stoner Metal, today we have newcomers Throne and their debut album titled “Avoid The Light”. In this very promising debut album, the band manages to deliver a Sludgy and heavy Stoner/Southern Metal that while not very original, it catches the listener’s attention and never let’s go.

Opening with the slow and painful “Prefer to Die”, flashes of Neurosis immediately came to us thanks to the powerful vocals of Samu. The tone is very doomy/sludgy creating a very thick and simple atmosphere. Things pick up with “Buried Alive” and “3 Days of Rain”, two tracks that establish the band’s Southern influences very early and are packed with traditional riffs.

While the music is quite good, the band falls into some repetitive patterns in tracks like “Black Crow”, “Forsaken”, and “Smoke-Screen”. Being their debut release, this is understandable and it is also because the genre itself is quite repetitive at times. As a minor blemish in this release, we are sure that less critical fans of the genre will not mind these details.

Our favorite track in this release comes under the name of “God Sent Me To Kill You”. Here we get some clean vocals and a more traditional Southern Metal approach that is quite catchy. The drumming in this track is quite delightful as well. Closing with “Red Sun Of The South”, the band really leaves us with high hopes for their future releases.

As a whole, “Avoid The Light” is quite an entertaining release filled with powerful riffs, a pulsating bass guitar line, and very well crafted drums. While we will never fully understand how bands from Europe can get the whole Southern vibe going on, we will take it at face value and enjoy the hell out of it. Throne is a very promising band indeed, and you won’t want to miss owning this album in a lush digipack provided by Moonlight Records.

Band: Throne Album: Avoid The Light
Label: Moonlight Records

Release: November 30th, 2012

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Genre: Stoner/Southern Metal

Country: Italy

Rating: 86/100
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