Wednesday 7 January 2015

Nok Novum - Shiryo

     It's Wednesday once again (as it usually is following Tuesday) and man oh man have I got something proggy and groovy for you to hump to.

     Canadian instrumental act Nok Novum may not be especially well known at the moment, but if they keep releasing material like their latest single "Shiryo" that's going to change pretty fast. It's eight minutes of groovy, proggy instrumental metal, with just enough free rein given to weird melodic ideas, never too much. "Shiryo" track goes a lot of places without ever feeling either lost and meandery or schizophrenic and disjointed. Ideas don't vanish too early or overstay their welcome, instead being jammed around for what always feels like an appropriate amount of time.

     This might sound like an isolated facet of the band's music to get hung up on, but instrumental metal can get old real fast if done wrong. "Shiryo" is a prime example of  Nok Novum doing it right. A guy could get pretty into an album's worth of material of this quality, just saying.

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