With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
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With Echoes in the Movement of Stone is the third studio album by American doom metal band Minsk, released on May 26, 2009 through Relapse Records.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
About.com | [3] |
Allmusic | [4] |
Rock Sound | [5] |
The album received moderately good reviews, receiving praise or the stylistic range of the music, with Allmusic's Phil Freeman noting that "The band's music surges and ebbs like a massive tide, with the guitar lines moving in a linear and horizontal",[4] and being called "a dynamic, shape-shifting beast that takes the form of a swaying ghost-like figure one minute before swelling into some sort of stone-crushing giant the next"[3] by Ryan Ogle of About.com. Both reviewers also noted similarities between the album and Neurosis's Through Silver in Blood.[3][4] Both reviewers also agreed that the album was within the style that Minsk was known for, with Ogle claiming that "the end result is unmistakably Minsk",[3] though they disagreed about how much experimentation occurred within that sound. Freeman stated that "while this album doesn't move Minsk's music forward in any significant way–they do what they do–it's a superb example of a band achieving total stylistic maturity",[4] while Ogle stated that the band was "chart[ing] the previously unexplored territory that is With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone".[3]
Track listing
- All Songs Written & Arranged By Minsk.
- "Three Moons" – 6:08
- "The Shore of Transcendance" – 9:59
- "Almitra's Premonition" – 10:06
- "Means to an End" – 5:59
- "Crescent Mirror" – 8:58
- "Pisgah" – 4:07
- "Consumed by Horizons of Fire" – 6:31
- "Requiem: From Substance to Silence" – 11:18
Personnel
- Christopher Bennett – guitar, vocals
- Timothy Mead – synthesizer
- Sanford Parker – bass guitar, vocals, keyboards
- Tony Wyioming – drums
- Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Sanford Parker
- Artwork and Layout by Orion Landau
References
- ^ "Minsk Begins Recording New Album". blabbermouth.net. 2009-01-29. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ "Minsk Completes Recording New Album". blabbermouth.net. 2009-02-14. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ a b c d e f Ogle, Ryan. "Minsk - 'With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone'". about.com. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ a b c d e Freeman, Phil. "With Echoes in the Movement of Stone > Overview". allmusic. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
- ^ Kemp, Mike (June 2009). "Minsk – With Echoes in the Movement of Stone." Rock Sound (123): 85.