Artist: Hidden Mothers
Single: The Longest Journey Yet
Year: 2019
Rating: 8/10
Sheffield based black metal shoegaze quintet Hidden Mothers are an interesting and invigorating proposition. The band's members were in such bands as Hayfever, Ba'al, Relics, and Fly On Bird, Fly On, and assembled as Hidden Mothers through a mutual love of bands such as Downfall of Gaia, Deafheaven, Alcest, Converge, Oathbreaker and Amenra. "The Longest Journey Yet" is their debut single. How does it stack up?
Well, it's a finely executed balance of post-metal atmospheric sounds that you would associate with bands like MØL, Year of no Light, Sumac, and Rosetta, on the one hand, and on the other hand its assault is more traditional black metal fare: coruscating buzzsaw guitars, vocalist Steffan Benham's banshee howl delivery and fierce blastbeats from drummer Adam Kossowicz. It might not be a wholly original musical idea, but the delivery is superb, and clocking in at four and a half minutes long, is sufficient to get the listener interested enough to wish for them to record an EP. Give them a listen, it's worth your time.
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