Description

During the late 90’s/early 00’s the mainstream rock/metal landscape was being saturated by homogenous slabs of Nu-Metal with the likes of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn etc. However the underground scene was producing much more interesting bands, one in particular being the Nottingham based Earthtone9. This band provided listeners with a melding of sounds ranging from spiritual melody to raw heaviness, coming across as a sort of love child between Helmet, Deftones and Tool. Having slowly built steam in the underground community with their highly praised lo-def(inition) discord Earthtone9 would eventually come to create Arc’tan’gent. Sadly however whether it be due to the landscape of metal at the time or a lack of marketing, Earthtone9 never got the chance to truly bask in the limelight of their mainstream counterparts and shortly after disbanded. Arc’tan’gent was the bands strongest output and its filled with an eerie atmosphere, great songwriting, full of deathly screams, and only a few missteps. Fans of alternative aggressive hardcore metal should definitely check it out.

Track list:
1. Tat Twam Asi
2. Evil Crawling I
3. P.R.D Chaos
4. Approx. Purified
5. Walking Day
6. Star Damage For Beginners
7. Ni9e – This Is The Sound…
8. Yellow Fever
9. Alpha Hi
10. Binary101