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Feb 26, 2020Tthe album plays out like a mood swing of rage, despair, and an ennui that threatens to consume. It’s in that ebb and flow that Sightless Pit as a trio have found their balance. There is space for softness and melancholy. The organic is allowed to creep amongst the distorted or the electronic. Noise is only meant as a temporary shock to the system, not as a punishment to be endured.
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Kerrang!Feb 26, 2020An emotional ride that's hard to tune out. [22 Feb 2020, p.55]
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Feb 28, 2020The project's first album is a chaotic, unsettling mess filled with manic, distorted beats, mutated samples, and several varieties of intense vocalizations, from suffocated guttural screaming to commanding operatic virtuosity. While registering as some form of post-metal on the surface, the album is actually devoid of guitars.
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Feb 26, 2020The trio showcase their curiosity and inventiveness to create dark, deranged atmospheres that are simultaneously appalling and beautiful. Even with its lack of live drums or guitar riffs, Grave of a Dog is bound to keep listeners up at night.
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The WireMar 11, 2020Grave Of A Dog presents a challenges to the listener because although it succeeds as a well-executed project, there is a disjunction between form and content. Hayter in particular seems to gesture at a narrative, but its precise nature is left unclear. [Apr 2020, p.60]
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Feb 26, 2020Hayter brilliantly conjures atmosphere, but could perhaps hone some more arresting melodic progressions like her lament on Kingscorpse. It is Walker’s voice, blasted beyond melody into pure ranting expression, that seals the record’s strongest moments.