Doom/sludge/post-metal band Pillar of Light will release their debut album on December 6th, via Transcending Obscurity Records. Titled Caldera the seven track material is utterly emotional. To give a taste of what’s to come, the band has already dropped two singles, the latest one, Spared, on September 14th.
Pillar of Light‘s music is weighty and drenched in melancholy and amid all the pain and sorrow, they have found a way to project light and hope when all seems lost. It is the case with almost every single song on this profound album, where the songs toil and churn and build up for a divine epiphany of sorts to take place, culminating in a blinding, freeing, all-cleansing white-light catharsis. Without this ponderous struggle, the backbreaking sludge/doom drudgery, any of the uplifting parts would lose meaning. As in life, both darkness and light have their place and one wouldn’t be the same without the other.
The raw emotions in the music and the underlying plaintive melodies are all too palpable… Also, the feeling is heightened in large part due to the burning intensity and desperation in the vocals. Pillar of Light have created an album that is poignant and more importantly relatable. It is soul-crushingly heavy, pinning down the mortal with the endless weight of struggle and torment. At the same time, they invariably, ensure that there’s enough humanity in it for one to see things through.
Lineup:
Aaron Whitfield – Vocals, Lyrics, Synths
Alex Kennedy – Guitars, Synths
Scott Christie – Guitars
James Obenour – Bass
Eric Scobie – Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Tracklist:
1.Wolf To Man
2.Leaving
3.Spared
4.Eden
5.Infernal Gaze
6.Unseeing
7.Certain End
