Bison B.C. - Dark Ages
Stressed Elephant
Fear Cave
Melody, This is for you
Two-Day Booze
Die of Devotion
Take the Next Exit
Wendigo Pt. 3 (Let Him Burn)
‘Dark Ages’ is the third album by Canadian land mammal quartet, Bison BC. Presenting an organised mess of manically paced sludgy doom is by no means an easy target to achieve. However, these relatively newly placed mud lovers have their eye on the ball. Combining different sub-genres, tinged with a tomb-laden southern rockin' groove, Bison BC are certainly something you’d find lurking inside of a dilapidated history museum. Sinking into nature’s primal undergrowth, they have collaborated and re-fossilised a reptile from a time before civilization – which of course, everybody would be interested in seeing. Undoubtedly pleasing swamp admirers of Kylsea, Black Tusk, or more notably with this release, Mastodon; they have well and truly come into their own. Portraying warmth and pride worthy desolate riffs alongside thunderously hollow caveman-like drumming, ‘Dark Ages’ is certainly a vast improvement on their last effort, ‘Quiet Earth’. With the first half of the album being stronger than the second, ‘Stressed Elephant’, ‘Fear Cave’, ‘Melody, This is for you’ and ‘Two-day Booze’ certainly show Bison BC’s majestic side, as the continuing tracks remain undistinguished.
All in all, ‘Dark Ages’ is a varied but stable album of indigenous simplicity. Forget about comparing the lack of advancement to their peers - this is a truly rocking record.
Review by Dave Sherwood
‘Dark Ages’ is out now on Metal Blade
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