Consuming in its steadiness of atmospheric intrigue and heavy-rocking ardour, Six Migrations is an ardent metal-forward success from Six Migration, the undertaking of Portland, Oregon-based musician David Vitello. A genre-spanning artist and audio engineer, Vitello’s profession started within the Nineteen Nineties, paused in 2002 after early prolific output and band involvement, and resumed in 2019 — with a various vary of releases together with the album Decibel Nihil, movie scores, a progressive steel album together with his daughter, and now the Six Migrations EP.
A thunderous push of guitar distortion and growling vocal depth begin “Gods,” opening the EP with compelling ferocity. A quick pause previous the 50-second mark drives into an excitably dexterous guitar line, then falling again into the grumbling hard-rock vigor. One other consuming shift takes maintain a minute thereafter, whereas nocturnal guitar pulses accompany introspective vocal dreaminess — increasing into a chic, blissful fusing of synth pads and orchestral-like resonance. Vitello has a transparent expertise for unfolding structural immersion, inside a wide selection of tonal pursuits, and “Gods” is actually exemplary of that.
The EP continues to succeed, with “Demi-Gods” excelling in its combination of foreboding steel riffs and bellowing ghost-choir intrigue within the second half. “Animals” additionally stirs in its magnetic alt-rock composure, swelling right into a screaming excellence because the finale approaches. Concluding monitor “Hell Denizens” envelops throughout each lush guitar atmospherics and death-metal sludge. Six Migrations is a unbelievable EP that doesn’t let up as soon as all through its six memorable tracks.
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“Hell Denizens” and different tracks featured this month will be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
