Full of Hell and Nothing - When No Birds Sang (Clear with White Gold and Royal Splatter Vinyl)

"On When No Birds Sang, Nothing and Full Of Hell meet in the perfect middle. The result is as colossal and evocative as Deafheaven’s Sunbather while also proving there’s more than one way to combine shoegaze and extreme metal. The album feels split up into acts or movements (the vinyl lists side A as North and side B as South), a division encapsulated by the triptych on the cover, depicting a cloud in a blue sky. The six songs range from four to eight minutes, a world of flux contained within each. The patient flow of the music lends it a classical texture; the record plays like a sweeping, sinister symphony, with the focus placed on the mood and atmosphere above all else. “Forever Well” is pushed forward by floating synthesizers like wisps of smoke, before, two-thirds of the way through, it explodes into a wall of Walker’s growls harmonized with emotive exhales from Palermo and Martin. On “Wild Blue,” the ethereal sonic palette never ignites into ruthless metal; it remains ambient, an