Tree Of Sores - "A Cry Of Despair" ...

This artist got my attention with their newest one track album: A Cry of Despair. One track, one sound scape saturated with apocalyptic guitar riffs and vocals bursting through the dark sky. Tree of Sores is a metal band from the United Kingdom. They are depicting their music as a nightmare in a damaged brain. Three albums have been released until today, and every album has its own style. Tree of Sores makes use of different gloomy genres for every album, influenced from doom metal, to crust to post-metal, giving every album a unique character.

From the newest to the last album, A Cry of Despair is a very dark album, overloaded with bass and heavy drums. This one tune alternates between calm constructing initiations and intense centerpieces, consisting out of 6 to 7 movements. Over all lays a fogy atmosphere, its afflicting nature. The sound grows on a minimalistic soil, establishes itself and gets bigger and more intense until the sky breaks apart and the sun shines on the devastated ground, uncovering this gloomy place, evoking the sense of impending doom.

With their second album, Tree of Sores succeeded in creating an abstract. Again an oeuvre with a strong density, abruptly breaking out of a quiet and freaky atmosphere. As a whole this album is much crunchier then the other albums, meaning having a more monotonously instrumental ground but stronger vocals. The instrumental ground is thin, but just enough for the vocals to gain their ground. While there are nearly no vocals in the latest album, the vocals in this album are strongly present and have an agonizing and aggressive character. In this and the last album Sandforge there are female and male vocals mixing up. Talia, the female vocalist and bassist is only present in the first two albums, being dropped out and replaced by only a bassist, Joe Hall.

Their first album is just a one track EP, Sandford, only takes 6:29 minutes and is the only album that is not free to download. This album is quite similar to the second album, but has movements with a drone or post-metallic aspect. It is an interesting piece, but very short and their first try to publish their own music.

On the whole, this artist creates gloomy and epic sound scape with tremendous intensity. This artist is recommended to everyone who listens to gloomy metal styles; he might find his preferred metal style in one of these three albums but if you want to want to discover a new metal genre, this artist may introduce you to a new one. Tree of Sores leads you through a broad range of gloomy metal, and might be an interesting discovery for fans of Pelican, Neurosis or Wolves in the Throneroom.

Words: Luis Luethi

Tree Of Sores @ Bandcamp