{"id":26206,"date":"2013-10-30T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-totem-skin-still-waters-run-deep\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:29:24","slug":"album-review-totem-skin-still-waters-run-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-totem-skin-still-waters-run-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Totem Skin – Still Waters Run Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"Hailing from Borlange, Sweden, Totem Skin<\/strong> have, in less than a year, doubled in size and made a very good album. \u2018Still Waters Run Deep\u2019<\/em> is seven tracks of intense heavy music that starts pretty well and then just gets better.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Kargt Landskap\u2019<\/em> does give the impression that if anything, Totem Skin<\/strong> are just a not so monumental Converge. Following up with the title track doesn\u2019t do much to shift the impression \u2013 two brilliant songs but two songs cut from a very well known banner. By \u2018Romans\u2019<\/em>,\u00a0\u2018Still Waters Run Deep\u2019<\/em> has me happily tapping along, thoroughly engrossed in the harsh world the six piece have created.<\/p>\n

Then, suddenly, everything changes as \u2018Atrophy of the Heart\u2019<\/em> begins and the entire record becomes something else. Out of nowhere comes this majestic piece of swelling hardcore. Better at its heaviest than those three tracks that proceed it, with vocals so harsh they\u2019d make a Great White cry, and guitars that could well shake the Earth. At the same time, the first truly sweeping melodies of \u2018Still Waters…\u2019<\/em> appear here, even in those heaviest moments, with just a touch more melody to the riffs, Totem Skin<\/strong>\u00a0begin to move towards a much stronger grounding.
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From thereon in, the band go from strength to strength. \u2018At the Forest’s Edge\u2019<\/em>\u00a0is the pinnacle of the album. Legitimately beautiful through layers of what a large number would call unlistenable, Totem Skin<\/strong>\u00a0are next level captivating.<\/p>\n

For me there are two failings across the whole of \u2018Still Waters Run Deep\u2019<\/em>. The first is the way the record doesn\u2019t hit its potential until almost the half way mark. To be as clear as I can be: those first three tracks are excellent, they\u2019re just not becoming of a band that go on to prove how good they can be. The second is that for almost six minutes of the beautiful closing track, \u2018Seasons\u2019<\/em> there is near silence. In there somewhere, far too quiet, is dialogue that does enhance the story of the song, but it is too quiet and too much, so that when it breaks again, it feels less of an expected build and move of a jarring surprise.<\/p>\n

For a first full length, however, there is little to fault really. There is more beauty in these seven tracks than there is in much of the frequently saturated genre to which Totem Skin<\/strong> may claim to belong. Massive.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘Still Waters Run Deep’<\/em> by Totem Skin<\/strong> is out in late November on Dog Knights Productions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Totem Skin<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Thomas Knott (@nounandthenouns<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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