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Oct 23, 2015While the shock has worn off for their follow-up, Deeper Than Sky makes up for the lack of surprise by being even better executed.
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Oct 23, 2015The band sounds like they’re having fun, and humor is such a scarcity in the super serious realm of modern metal. Deeper Than Sky is fun to listen to, like the carefree thrash of old.
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Oct 23, 2015Leave it to VHÖL to find another dimension to the ever-bountiful combination of hardcore and metal, where the cerebral and the primal stomp heads next to one another.
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Nov 2, 2015It's a mind-bending metal album that casts the gaze of its extraterrestrial eye towards an unknown galaxy far away.
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Nov 2, 2015Deeper than Sky is just as much a thrill ride [as Disfear’s Live the Storm], coming from the opposite angle--confident that the growling will balance the ornate structures, it hits plainly no matter how intricately it jumps from measure to measure.
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Oct 23, 2015Without truly breaking any paradigms, the well-respected veterans in VHÖL do all kinds of things well that evade heavier peers, never relying too hard on the math or surprises for a thrill. If anything, its 42 minutes fly by so smoothly you’re surprised to discover there wasn’t a hitch or even a dead spot.