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After years of fits and starts (including a name change from its former Tualatin), it’s great to finally see a good and proper debut product from the long-suffering but lineup-consistent Atlanta trio Let the Night Roar. Here be wonderfully cohesive sludge/doom that remains faithful and adherent to the genre tropes: plodding rhythmic backbeats with a bass that hums above and beneath the guitar, itself churning out sour milk melodies that strain to make themselves heard, and a vocal bark that nudges into hardcore but mostly just clings to doom-laden anguish. What distinguishes this ever so slightly is a momentum and savagery that belies its half-time pacing, a good habit borne from either a crust-derived love for candor or an appreciation of simple big RAWK moments. Either way, it establishes something very closely resembling hooks and keeps these songs very well disciplined, many hovering at or near the four-minute mark. If sludge bands ever released singles, we’d have three or four worthy candidates here. Great to see this album (released independently in 2008) see a wider release by virtue of trading up to the very admirable MeteorCity label, even if the latter’s newfound love for the environmentally friendly ecopak results in marginally skimpier packaging.
| Tracklist |
| 1. All Costs 05:59 |
| 2. Holy War 03:54 |
| 3. Sleep 04:04 |
| 4. Kill Yourself 02:51 |
| 5. Bow 04:27 |
| 6. Blood for Blood 04:10 |
| 7. Almighty 05:07 |
| 8. Let the Night Roar 05:08 |
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