by Matt Loomis

Editor’s Review:

This is it, my friends: record of the year. On their third release, Torche have officially done the impossible, bridging the worlds of pop melodies and doom/sludge together into one monolithic record that will have rock critics standing in line at Costco for extra boxes of Depends. The first song, “Across The Shields,” boasts enough hook mastery to make Dave Grohl rethink his chosen career path; leading into the heavy, heavy, heavy “Amnesian” that sounds like the song Kyuss only wished they would’ve written. Then, just when you’re on hook overload, here comes the title track, which lurches along at the pace of a funeral procession. And that’s only within the first 20 minutes…

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