February 8, 2013 • Moment of Collapse Records
Yet another Bandcamp discovery, this one being one of the more popular metal releases when it came out—and with those track times, I wasn't too surprised to see it shares a member with Fall of Efrafa (surprising that they're showing up in my reviews again). Unfortunately this album isn't quite as thrilling and the band needs some work before they're going to wow me.
Light Bearer takes a more typical sludge/doom approach with standard loud-soft-loud-soft song structures. The softer bits come courtesy of some really beautiful orchestral segments, which work well at setting the tone of the album and fit in well with the bulk of it, along with some more standard post-rock arrangements.
Unfortunately I don't think there's enough happening on this album to justify its length; the majority of the guitar riffs are very generic-sounding, playing repetitive chord progressions without much regard for melody. They seem heavy on the surface, but ultimately there's not a lot of substance to them. The quieter sections are an improvement, with some more interesting instrumental arrangements and riffs, but serve mostly to glue the unrelated heavy sections together, resulting in a disorganized mess.
I suppose I might be coming off as a bit harsh on Silver Tongue but let's be honest—there's oodles of more deserving music out there just like this. It's an okay album but there's no reason to pick on it over anything else (aside from it being pay-what-you-want). Hopefully these guys stick around and work on their songwriting, because their aesthetics are good. It's just a shame that it basically ends there.
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