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Bölzer -Hero lp

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Black vinyl with hot foil gold stamping. Comes with printed innersleeve and a 12 page A5 sized booklet

With several mini albums released, here comes finally the massively anticipated debut album, Hero, from Bölzer. Hailing from Switzerland, Bölzer are one of the most unique entities the metal underground has birthed in years. For one, Bölzer are proudly and resolutely a duo, using the barest essentials of voice, guitar, and drums and yet creating one of the densest, most world-eating sounds around. For another, the duo have wisely and patiently parceled out their recordings, with a lone nine songs to date across three records – 2012’s Roman Acupuncture demo, 2013’s Aura EP, and 2014’s Soma EP – judiciously chronicling the band’s evolution into one of the most critically acclaimed metal bands in recent memory. And yet, “critical acclaim” has never been a part of Bölzers agenda: their commitment is to their art alone, but it just so happens that word-of-mouth built organically (and feverishly), especially on the strength of their devastating, soul-draining live performances, where they can recreate every aspect of their records in the flesh. And at long last, flesh is given to a full-length album, and it bears the characteristically idiosyncratic title Hero. Here, in many ways, the band break from their past. Rich ‘n’ resonant clean vocals often take center stage, lending an alternately mournful/majestic quality to the duo’s earth-juddering bulldoze. Likewise, the production across Hero is categorically cleaner than their grime-coated EPs, which dynamically enhances the spiralling melodicism that explodes into being here. Suitably, the songwriting itself takes on dazzling new contours, wending ‘n’ winding with even more fluidity – and certainly more daring – than the band’s epic-yet-effortless EPs. And yet, for however seemingly radical these developments are – ultimately, they shouldn’t be that “radical” in the hands of capable and sincere artisans – it all sounds like Bölzer, both what they were, what they can be, and most especially, what they currently are. Every aesthetic suggestion, every subtle nuance, everything left unsaid in the past: here on Hero, it’s all harnessed into a molten maelstrom that’s ever more unique (and alien) because it’s unshackled itself from expectation. It is, in a word, heroic. But what is the meaning of Hero? Discover for yourself, plunge into that maelstrom, and let Bölzer be your guide.

Track list:
1. Urdr
2. The Archer
3. Hero
4. Phosphor
5. Decima
6. I Am III
7. Spiritual Athleticism
8. Chlorophyllia
9. Atropos

Additional information

Label

Iron Bonehead

Release Year

Catalogue Number

IBP303