Sludge and doom metal are close related, so to mix the two is nothing extraordinary, but Thou stepped through the borders of the genre. The sludge features are responsible for their rather aggressive sound, and there is the indispensable down-pulling, desperate feeling and the extended heaviness too, but somehow the main view is not so demoralizing as it used to be. That's partly becaue their music is somehow more complex than how sludge used to be, and on the side of the long-term noisy suffering they sometimes switched to light, relaxing melodies too. These having some post-metal feeling, that gave a more modern impression to their music and also compensing the down-pulling heaviness by creating a strong contrast. Their doom themes are reminding to Sleep and old Cathedral. The band preferred to experiment a bit instead of repeating the noisy chaos, and this way the album became more colorful, and (unlike at other similar bands) some hidden emotional aspect appearing too occasionly by of the post-metal melodies. Strongly recommended for fans of heaviness.
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