AMENRA - Mass IIII

On Mass IIII, the band's second full-length album, the members of AMENRA have knotted the emergency of 2005's Mass III together with the band's live ritual of droning tension-building instrumental passages, crushing dynamics, silent chanting and anguished screams. Mass IIII finds the band erupting in seismic heaviness, building up to near euphoric crescendos and embracing an atmosphere of ominous triumph. The album benefits from the band's primordial quality for towering, spellbinding anthems, bashed repetitive chords fused with primitive and escalating power. Mass IIII is more focused than ever, heavier than ever, slower than ever. The album, containing the instant classic "Razoreater", piles on layer after layer of colossal, hellish riffing that lead to claustrophobic heaviness, driven by a pagan call-and-response drum beat, trading thunderous dissonance with desolate ruminating instrumental episodes delivered with nuance, intelligence, and dynamics. Record Label: Hypertension Style: Metal