Territorios (studio album)
by Tenue

From Mercury 04/20/2021 19:12

(Very cool, massive, emotive screamo album, with some vicious intensity at points and also a lot of pretty walls of guitar intensity.)

This is named an EP on Apple Music. Its 1 song "Territorios" that stretches for 29 minutes and goes in various directions along the way. The vocals are fine and intense and I like them. The guitars and musicianship is also quite good. But what makes this project stand out from the screamo pack is how textured and cohesive the whole thing is. The seamless transitions from black metal/somewhat shoe gazey walls of emotive guitar to vicious and almost grindy outbursts, to more mathematical screamo parts to almost anthemic and inspiring pay offs, is all so damn impressive.

This has been a year for Screamo revival brilliance so far (at least for me.) And this fits snugly along the new LOREM IPSOM and Dreamwell albums on that top tier of really great screamo projects released in these first 4 months of 2021. I would say, after only a couple listens, this is a tier lower than Vivre Encore and a couple tiers below Modern Grotesque for me personallly. But they are also each incredibly different takes on the basic sound - to say the least. This may have the most cohesive and seamless sound across the whole album of the 3. That may be because this is one song of huge proportions. But yeah, that is my little detour I wanted to make.

This is just impressive and its a great album on almost every level.