Yashira - We Find Ourselves In The Grief Of Others (2015)

 

The four piece Yashira crafts a beautifully oppressive yet heavy and abrasive character of metal. Having been a band for less than a year, they have already played with the likes of: Crowbar, High On Fire and they did a small run with Full of Hell. The band's current and only released Ep We Find Ourselves In The Grief of Others pushes the boundaries of extreme metal seamlessly combining elements of black metal, doom, sludge, while giving it an alluring and sinister psychedelic earmark. My favorite song off of the ep which happens to be the second song and the longest *9:34* Alluvation (Succumb to The Cycles) begins with a baptism of doom with droning reverb and feedback that I would have to describe as the sound of being led to the guillotine by my executioner, the song continues to develop throughout several harmonious movements from a eerily beautiful chorus that echoes blue record era Baroness, to blast beats and buzzsaw guitars until a crowning glory of bottom heavy fury brings the song to an end. The first song Dialysis (Cynosure) is only a little more than half as long running at about 5 minutes and 30 seconds, immediately transitioning from heavy progressive riffage to a blast beat & then logically moving to another beautiful chorus. What makes Yashira stand out above their peers is the way each song is delicately crafted; The guitar work, vocal work and rhythm section all work and transition as seamlessly as flowing water, or as matter getting sucked into a black hole, take your pick. It's almost as if Igor Stravinsky himself listened to Through Silver and Blood and then went out and bought a Les Paul and an Orange stack. Yashira will be a force to reckon with in the metal world. Peep the bandcamp in the link below. -Rip

https://yashira.bandcamp.com/releases