22 November 2023
As a person who started listening to heavy metal in 1991 with the Wasted Years EP from Iron Maiden’s ten years collection series, it is a fact that I sometimes looked at music through blinders. But as you can appreciate, there wasn’t much post, avant-garde talk back then. Music was shaped according to the criteria we call “True”. Of course, as the years have gone by, naturally there have been changes in my perspective on music.
For example, I didn’t appreciate many bands like Pink Floyd and King Crimson in my newbie metalhead days. For me, anything that was too soft and unorthodox (what else I could write here would not fit so well) was wrong and incomplete. While we accepted everything that was hard and metal as we knew it, we treated the others as crap. I say “we” because at that time the metal listening audience generally had such a conservative attitude.
Anyway, after all, music is an important branch of art and shouldn’t be considered within boundaries, but I guess you need to evolve to understand that. Whatsoever, without further ado, let me tell you about the album that caused this article.
Buried Inside is a band added to the metal archives (where some diamonds like Converge aren’t accepted) and was ‘registered’ as a metal band, and I think it is possible to define their music as atmospherical post hardcore/sludge metal.
Although metal archives also labelled the band as grindcore, I personally don’t agree much with this description. Although I don’t pay much attention to most of the albums in terms of lyrics, it is clear from the song titles and the lyrics that the band talks about time and its effect on human beings in this concept album. Some albums leave no need for words with what they make you feel musically. Buried Inside’s Chronoclast is such an album. The band manage to make you feel what they want to tell. Even though I prefer crust/grindcore genres rather than hardcore in general, this was an album that I was seriously impressed by.
The album, which was released by a solid label like Relapse, does justice to this distinguished label. The album, which I find very successful in terms of production, takes you away. Sometimes many albums with great ideas may lose their value with their unnecessarily long duration. In this album, Buried Inside says what they have to say in 40 minutes, they punch their fists and run away. Of course, by making you want to listen to it again.
This album of Canada’s Buried Inside could be cited within the same genre along with the bands such as Isis, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Year of No Light etc. All in all, this is an album with its fluctuating mood between wild and meditative, even old metalheads can enjoy.
8,5/10
