Sunday 17 August 2014

Sunday: The Matador - Destroyer

     OK, so maybe I was wrong about you yesterday. Maybe thrashy melodeath like the kind peddled by British Bloodshot Dawn isn't your cup of tea. That's fine. Perhaps sludgy post-metal will be more your speed?

     Australian act The Matador has the market cornered on big, crushing post-metal with a decidedly sludgy, doomy feel. Mastodon and Baroness both come immediately to mind, but to say that The Matador sounds like either of those bands wouldn't be quite right. Mastodon are a little proggier, and Baroness are a little bit more folky space rock.

     The Matador, on the other hand, are just big and heavy and abrasive. Their latest Destroyer has apparently been three years in the making, but those three years have resulted in a seasoned, refined sound, the sound of a band that's confident with where it's at. I'm not sure if that makes any sense to you, so you should probably just have a listen to title track "Destroyer" and see if you can decipher some meaning from my sage musings.

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