Alluvion by Mizmor & Hell (Gilead Media)

Mizmor & Hell
Alluvion
Gilead Media

For years, Mizmor & Hell have been swirling around the Pacific Northwest scene with projects that have supported each other’s creative work for decades. So it’s no surprise how comfortable the two reside within Alluvion.

What was composed long ago sat in obscurity. It never quite made it to the surface until now as A.L.N. and M.S.W. both find themselves within a creative dimension that allowed these songs to finally excel.

The way the music emotes from desperate beauty to cataclysmic noise is strangely flawless. As you dive into the songs you forget just how it was all created. Allluvion is not your typical doom metal album. It’s built more like a classical masterpiece in that textures are amplified and passion for the art is expressed.

The few songs listed bleed from the soul and give the listener a journey through psychic distress that wax and wane from both the outside and within. It’s an eye opening experience stuck in a void of pensiveness that’s moments away from being crushed by the weight of their sound.

It’s been a while I have heard an album that’s creative means is self exploring instead of conceptual interpretation. Alluvion is the door that you cross and enter into an astral plane of hyper art in a way that rarely gets touched to a level that both A.L.N. and M.S.W. has accomplished.