Though billed by the band as “54 tracks of dense, heavy, delicious, moist poundcake,” The Grasshopper Lies Heavy’s Gun (released via Forgotten Empire Records) is really just six tracks of dense, delicious doom metal – and 48 tracks of nothing but beeps.
San Antonio’s The Grasshopper Lies Heavy play feedback heavy instrumetal and their second EP is a promising introduction to a band with big potential. But for all intents and purposes, Grasshopper is merely the demented ramblings of James Woodard. With the closing of each measure, Grasshopper leaves the listener worried whether the bottom will inevitably drop out, if the crushing riffs will collapse upon themselves, resulting in a dismal display akin to a self-imploding building, the rubble of a bombed out suburb, the twisting metal and shattered concrete of a trade center collapsed.
“Equalizer Drone” begins with feedback, a reverberating fury; as anticipation builds the band teases like a buzzed 18 year old. The level of tension developed is something along the lines of what Tool creates on some of their feedback-laden interludes. Grasshopper comes in as band for the first time with “Gifts” and immediately make a map of thematic ideas to be developed over the next five tracks.
“Untitled2” is Grasshopper’s most melodic offering – sounding almost like a ridiculously heavy version of Mineral or some other mid-90s shoe-gazing indie rock band.
Read more about Gun here.
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The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - "Equalizer Drone"
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