| CD REVIEW Tekhton |
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Band : Tekhton It seems that Groninger, Frysian Tekhton already can look back at a CD from the year 2007, which I know nothing about, but apparently had received quite rave reviews. Now the quintet is around with its second full length Alluvial via the German label Church Within. Alluvial is a tough nut to crack. It's all solid but very crunchy doomy sludge metal with pounding rhythms, growling and clean vocals and throbbing guitars, but dark and sinister Tekhton, who started out under the name Lahar, never ventures from their sludge metal roots but they still manage to sound different than the other bands out there. The cool thing about this band is that it doesn't fall into any particular niche, which is damn refreshing. To compare them to other bands is not easy, but just looking at the first couple of songs “ Clove Hitch”, “Tooth And Nail” and “All Is Glory” we have elements of Buzzoven, Sourvein, Rwake, EyeHateGod, Cavity, Hull, Sabbath and yes even King Crimson pushing through. I think one of their problems is that it's all the same pace more or less, which kind of gets boring after a while. Their mass destruction weapons of choice on “Auric Revelations” and “Tectonic Mass” are thick down-tuned guitars, droning, crushing riffs, agonised vocals, and the omnipresent influence of apocalyptic doom metal. There is plenty of despair, bleakness and depression embedded into the two last songs, the instrumentals “011712” and “90 Degrees” and “The Return Of Virococha”. 90/100 Cosmicmasseur. |
