sorrel

put this on walking back from the trailhead in november and it just slid off me. the scene consensus is best crossover since nightmare logic and i get why, the midtempo stomp turning over into the fast section is a clean piece of writing and the solo is real. but everything is mixed so bright and so even that the chug stops meaning anything the second time it comes around. power trip on manifest decimation sounded like the tape was fighting back. this sounds like it was tracked in a room with no walls.

luke's wall is the reason i'm here honestly. that outro is a band letting a tape machine collapse on purpose, finger jammed on the post, fast forward, and the reverb tail just hangs there after the machine's already gone. half the forest metal i love ends on some version of that trick and none of them found it first. the 2012 mix is where i cool off. brighter, harder, and there's that dropout people keep pointing at, and the guitars sit too far forward now for a song that's supposed to arrive out of a siren. went back to the walpurgis take on the ozzman comp the same night. witches instead of