“LOW BEFORE THE BREEZE’s highly anticipated debut LP, "A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared" drops on May 30th via Terminus Hate City. Blackened metal minced with grind and elements of atmosphere, mixed with emotional post-hardcore nuances.” The album has ten songs. “Loss of a Kingdom” is first; a short, introduction, consisting of short snippets of aggression and rage that don’t seem to follow any particular pattern. “Night Wept” is next. This song is overgrown with the weeds of a deep swamp, yet it also breathes at times. The entire song is harrowing, but also forward thinking, and there are subtle progressive elements at work.

“Keep His Name Sacred and Pure” is a three-minute song that has spoken word and spooky background elements. “Days Feel Rehearsed” has much deeper and more expansive sound, akin to opening a portal into the earth that is as black as the abyss. The vocals are tortured, and the riffs are beefy and powerful. “Cadaver” is like the raving words of a lunatic, and some of the Post Hardcore elements come into play here. The album is very loose so far, and as a listener, you aren’t quite sure where things are headed. The rage intensifies for much of the song, and then levels off. “Proverbs 722” is more straightforward in how the beast circles and ultimately kills you.  “Collected Messages of Abuse” might reflect some of the abhorrent experiences that some of the band members might have been through. It’s difficult to create such a harrowing landscape without that experience.

“Faithful Dreams” has an almost jovial riff, or, at the very least, a sound that is a bit more melodic. It lurches forward like a hungry wolf, grabs your throat, and doesn’t let go until it has drained your blood. “Permission to Rest” closes the album, and it’s seven minutes of torture and rage, from dissonant, angry tones that are a deep red in color. This was a disturbing album, and I mean that in a few ways…disturbing because of the images it brought forth, disturbing in the way the music personified torture, and disturbing to think that this came from the minds of the quartet. But, I love music that is outside of the box, and music that is vivacious and vital, and that is what this album was for me.