

Aesthetically there is a return to the underground for Leviathan but the music completely embraces the hipster sound of the last couple of years.  Leviathan plays the usual mix of post rock and shoegaze covered in a black metal exterior.  Crawl claims to play blackened doom but this is more minimalist sludge with some harsh background whispers.  The production on Leviathan’s side is excellent as elements sound strong clear while maintaining grit, as vocals fluctuate naturally, drums are punchy while remaining tight and the guitar tones dominates in superposition with the bass.  Crawl sounds like a teenager trying to replicate the Norwegian sound but with an apple computer and a latte.

Both compositions are idiotic and fall within the rock spectrum and do not deserve the slightest consideration as there is much better post rock music out there.

While lacking musically and tailored for the remnants of the hipster black metal crowd, this is evidently a fairly complex scam by these two artists to increase their popularity.  By taking the mystery associated with one man bands and combining them with an almost hip hop sense of collaboration they can possibly scrape enough pennies for a large bucket and a two liter.  All that is missing is a duet on the same track is some vegan gender fluid trans men twerking and idiots exclaiming that this is the future of metal.  Leviathan does show pride in the creation as the sound emerging from the speakers is very well crafted making him better than most one man bands that follow a few YouTube videos and mix their music with whatever they can torrent.  The ability to create music cheaply and quickly without the slightest of efforts has changed one man bands from being resourceful, obsessive musicians committed to their visions into idiots that could not find anyone else to make music with.  This leads to a new type of one-man-metaller that is too lazy to perfect their songs as they record one song and forget about it as quickly as I have forgotten about this split.


6 thoughts on “ Crawl/Leviathan

  1. Wrest from Leviathan says:

    You wanna criticize me!? Ya’ll better lock ur doors and tuck in the wife and kids real nice to bed because I’m com’in. Me and my tattoo equipment is com’in! Arrrgghhh!!!! The chickens have come to roost!

    Oh, and be sure to check out my gofundme page so me and the Sonic Youth guy can afford more trannies and heroin to slam. Thank you.

  2. Lance Viggiano says:

    Is a scam made by scammers to scam scammers even a scam?

    1. Gladius et Scutum says:

      Reminds me of Bernie Madoff. A jew jewing jews.

  3. This is not Jag Panzer… nor Norwegian

  4. Shantavious Rosenberg-O'Malley says:

    Nigga you really gay

    1. Nicholas Vahdias says:

      Good Reference

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