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MagnetOct 14, 2015Exhausting Fire is the fourth--and best installment of what will hopefully one day be recognized as the finest thing going in the forward-thinking heavy underground. [No. 125, p.59]
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Oct 2, 2015With this new album, they finally sever those last few ties, and forge ahead into the retro future.
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Oct 2, 2015For Kylesa, Exhausting Fire marks not only a giant step on their ever evolving journey (one that effortlessly looks forward and back simultaneously), but is also the bedrock of an idiosyncratic, clearly demarcated sonic terrain no other band can claim.
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Oct 2, 2015Exhausting Fire synthesizes and fuses those sounds with their more doomy roots.
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Oct 2, 2015Exhausting Fire has heart, both sonically and lyrically. It moves with confidence, content with its explorations, and it’s engaging because of it.
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Oct 12, 2015Some can't be saved, which happens when you keep expanding..... More often than not, though, the center holds, and it makes Ultraviolet look like a scratchpad for what they ended up doing here: radically shaking up their formula--from the inside out--and come back with compelling results.
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Oct 29, 2015Kylesa stick to their home-brewed brand of lyrically ambiguous sludge metal meets psychedelic rock with touches of Americana, some ‘80s goth moments, and a hearty smattering of doom.