Varials - In Darkness (New CD)

2019 release. With their second album In Darkness, Philadelphia's Varials traffic in moshy-metal. While the music is heavy enough to shift tectonic plates, it's not merely about crowd-killing breakdowns - although those exist in spades on the record. Rather, the band explores other aspects of heavy from the lyrics to the tones to the song structures to the melodies. It's a sonically dense, precise, and intense record, and it's not pretty. The same can be said about the lyric.

.

1        Wound    3:57
2        I Suffocate    4:01
3        In Darkness    2:37
4        Bleeding    2:44
5        [Fear]    0:43
6        South Of One   2:44
7        Romance    2:22
8        Obstacle III    3:27
9        I Against I    3:18
10        Splinter    2:58
11        The Love Machine    2:54
12        [Save Room]    1:49
13        Deathsong    3:19
14        [Untitled]    0:47
15        Maze    3:37