IDOL

Horrendous

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Tech/Extreme Prog Metal

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3.83 | 12 ratings | 2 reviews | 25% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 2018

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Prescience (1:18)
2. Soothsayer (4:49)
3. The Idolater (5:13)
4. Golgothan Tongues (6:15)
5. Divine Anhedonia (5:04)
6. Devotion (Blood for Ink) (6:25)
7. Threnody (2:20)
8. Obolus (8:37)

Total Time 40:01

Line-up / Musicians

- Damian Herring / guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Matt Knox / guitar, vocals
- Alex Kulick / bass
- Jamie Knox / drums

Releases information

Artwork: Brian Smith with Alex Eckman-Lawn and Mark Riddick (logo)

CD Season Of Mist ‎- SOM 490D (2018, US)

LP Season Of Mist ‎- SOM 490LP (2018, US)

Digital album

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HORRENDOUS Idol ratings distribution

3.83
(12 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (25%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (67%)
Good, but non-essential (8%)
Collectors/fans only (0%)
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Review by Warthur
PROG REVIEWER

Hey now, Horrendous, don't put yourself down! You might have the most self-deprecating band name in death metal but this stuff is pretty good!

Idol is the first album I've heard from Horrendous, but it's leaving me inclined to dip a little further into their discography. Apparently, they dial up the psychedelically-tinged progressive sides of their sounds here; what you get is a mixture of technically proficient, complex death metal, progressive song structures, and the occasional quieter, spacier moment - the short instrumental Threnody being perhaps the most sustained example of the latter.

Combined with lyrics which manage to be confrontational and compelling without being performatively edgy, this presents a thoughtful vision of death metal from the opening salvos all the way to the doomy album closer Obulus. In short, not horrendous at all - though I suppose "Very Good" isn't exactly a good band name.

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3 stars Listening diary 5th April, 2022: Horrendous - Idol (progressive death metal, 2018) I don't really like death metal much, honestly. So the fact that I kind of sort of maybe enjoy this is probably an achievement in itself. This new wave of death metal actually has some interest to me because of its ... (read more)

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