Comprised of Brittany McConnell and
Blake Green,
Wolvserpent, formerly known as
Pussygutt, release their second record to date in 2010. The duet comes from Boise, Idaho which is more renowned for being the capital city of the American highest potato population than for its active
Metal scene. Having traveled the roads of Idaho you’re either confronted with limitless fields of potatoes or graphic and yet melancholy and desolate scenery.
That melancholy and this despair would be a good enough reason for playing
Doom Metal and
Wolvserpent does use and abuse this doomy trademark. Now
Blood Seed isn’t strictly speaking a
Doom Metal record.
Made of only two lengthy tracks, the album is built into two distinct parts very different from one another. The first song, “Wolv”, offers fantastic sonic landscapes of grim beauty with the picturesque use of a languid violin. Idaho being quite close to Canada, maybe this will explain the striking similarity to Constellations figureheads’ A
Silver Mt.
Zion and their gloomy debut “He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms…”. If you know the band or if the name
Godspeed You! Black
Emperor rings a bell, you'd also know that we're quite far from anything sounding
Metal at all. Sure, the end of the song does bring some guitars and vocals but there isn’t much here that would really be qualified as
Metal.
The second track, “
Serpent”, actually picks up where “Wolv” ended but it goes much faster in less unknown territories with a good dose of
Drone Doom with
Funeral Doom elements reminiscent of bands like
Bosque or
Negative Reaction with a few “nature” touches (is that a wolf howling in the back?) that give it either a pagan or hippie feeling.
The only real issue with “drone-like” productions is the evident lack of variation within the songs and unless you’re built for that kind of things (because it is acquired taste), you’d soon lose focus and discard the record altogether. It’s common practice with such records to either call them pure awesome genius or simply trash them in the artsy gibberish pile of junk. I'd be more reserved finding good ideas in both tracks but maybe too great a disparity to really fall in love with the album as a piece of musical art.
But I am surprised to see the band beeing categorised as a Doom Metal band, I mean Wolvserpent would take more its influences from the Pagan Black Metal scene when you see the artwork of Bloodseed and Gathering Strengths and the traditionnal instruments throughout the album?
But I'm definitively convinced that the nature touch as you say is the most important part of their music, despite of the Doom elements. Just a different point of view ;)
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