Well babes^*, looks like the week’s about halfway over. I’m already kinda dragging my feet on getting any actual work done, looking ahead in the calendar to another weekend coming up soon.

Let’s talk about some music to pass the time, what do you say?

Today I’ve got two releases to share with you, from a band whose name means Darkness (although no word on whether they believe in a thing called love).

No, this Glaswegian post-metal ensemble really grabbed me by the ears when Trepanation released their sophomore EP three years ago, and they’ve finally followed with their first-ever full-length LP, which came out just a few days ago. Enjoy!

 

Void of Light – Enshroud (Trepanation Recordings, 24 March 2023)

 

Void of Light – Asymmetries (Ripcord Records, 03 April 2026)

 

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The Scottish quintet (at the time: they’ve since transformed into a sextet with the addition of a third-guitarist-slash-backing-vocalist) dropped their Enshroud EP back in early spring 2023, consisting of only two tracks, but each one is just slightly less than ten minutes apiece.

Both are filled with the jangly guitars, reverby atmosphere, slowly-building progressive structure, occasionally sparse arrangement with echoey drums, otherwise thickly layered walls of sound, melancholy clean singing interspersed with huge growly roars, all the elements one typically comes to expect from post-metal with sludge influences. And they’re all done exceptionally well here.

The brand-new album has grown to five tracks in total, each similar in length to those previous ones (ranging from about eight to eleven minutes). The vocal mix here tends to tilt in the death-growl direction significantly more often, with gothy baritone cleans popping up here and there.

The new triple-guitar line-up seems to have filled out the arrangements ever-so-slightly, as the sound tends to feel fuller more of the time, with fewer of the sparser interlude sections, although those still come around from time to time, offering up a nice dynamic variety.

Final track “Mirrorings” — for which the band have released a video, as seen below, in particular encompasses all of these elements and really piles on the layers of guitars and vocals towards the end, for a rather satisfyingly huge-sounding closing to the album.

 

 

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You can grab the Enshroud digitally here (US) or the CDs are still available here (UK).
 
Asymmetries is out now: digitally here (UK) or on CD over here (UK).
 

 

Void of Light: Bandcamp
Trepanation: Bandcamp
Ripcord: Bandcamp

 

^* – sorry about that, kind of picked up the habit of addressing everyone as “babes” from some of my Discord friends, based on Saoirse-Monica Jackson’s character from How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, which we all fell in love with on Netflix earlier this year.