Bone crunching instrumental rock
Date: 12 Jan 2008
Publisher: Cosmic Lava
Written by: Klaus Kleinowski
Hailing from the UK, ZONDERHOOF are here to beat your brain into submission
with their relentless brand of bone crunching instrumental rock. It's their
debut in 2007 for English label Sound Devastation Records, and what this
four Norwegian guys have recorded here is amazing! ZONDERHOOF relies on
thick, mean, down-tuned riffs accompanied by sledgehammer drum beats and
sometimes bizarre vocal parts, altough this is an instrumental band through
and through.. This has so much power, rage and heart that anyone being a
fan of heavy music can appreciate it. Musically they sound like a conglomeration
of High On Fire meets Gore with a dash of Boris. The reason I find this
disc so crucial is the fact that it is totally heavy without being part
of the Doom Metal or Sludge "scene" that many bands feel they
need to adhere to. ZONDERHOOF does what they want on their own terms and
let everyone think for themselves whether or not they like the band. The
natural heaviness of the songs is encapsulated in a production as fat and
dynamic as all adjectives for describing something fat put together. All
four songs hit you like a ton of bricks and make you beg for more, but after
30 minutes this feast of pulverizing riffage is over. This is one of those
rare moments when its possible for something so conventionally and unconventionally
powerful to be so good. I'm absolutely impressed and I want to hear more!
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