ITUS „Primordial”

Asher Media Relations, Ep’2020

Music: Doom Metal / Post Doom Death Metal
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/ITUSDOOM/
https://itusofficialdoom.bandcamp.com/album/primordial
Duration: 21:48 minutes (5 tracks)
Country: Canada

ITUS is a young Canadian band from in Ontario. And “Primordial” is their first EP…

Five pieces, kept in a crushing, gloomy and slow climate with a significant dose of trance, psychedelic tunes and melodic themes, but diverse. The heavy and dirty sound, slow pace, expressive, predatory vocals interspersed with pure singing and psychedelic-dark guitar motifs create the main sentence of ITUS music.

The first “Cloud Reader” introduces the listener to a typical, classic doom-metal atmosphere, initially with clean vocals, and after a while it turns into an even more heavy doom-death-metal tone with monstrous growls and psychedelic-stoner licks…

“Question Everything” ominously begins its presentation with dark, clear guitars and whispers, which gradually turns into a mega-heavy stoner-doom-metal track with monstrous vocals.

The title “Primordial” somewhat continues the mood of the previous track. However, it introduces more vocal variety by adding more harshing screams to the growls and dark-melancholic guitar melodies to totally heavy and rhythmic groove riffs.

“This Can’t Be” in my opinion it is a surprising track, very melancholic, atmospheric and dark, a kind of doom-metal ballad (with clean vocals), very emotional, melodic, which over time turns into a very powerful and crushing song.

The material ends with the song “The Chaplain”, with its post-metal introduction, very dark and atmospheric with a slow drone pace introducing into a funeral trance.

In addition, the whole material is embellished with the sounds of bells and psychedelic guitar sounds, which additionally intensifies the mood of darkness, horror and mystery.

Tracklist:
1. Cloud Reader
2. Question Everything
3. Primordial
4. This Can’t Be
5. The Chaplain

Line-up:
Brandon Lucking – guitars, bass
Reinier Vandenbosch – vocals
Jackson Ward – drumas

Rate: 9.5/10