Band:	Full Of Hell
Album:	Weeping Choir
Style:	Punk, Grindcore, Hardcore
Release date:	May 2019

01. Burning Myrrh
02. Haunted Arches
03. Thundering Hammers
04. Rainbow Coil
05. Aria Of Jeweled Tears
06. Downward
07. Armory Of Obsidian Glass
08. Silmaril
09. Angels Gather Here
10. Ygramul The Many
11. Cellar Of Doors

Four albums and ten years in, Full Of Hell have proven time and time again that they're far from your "ordinary" grindcore band. And that's as good a factor as any that keeps me coming back to them.

At this point in their career it feels almost inaccurate to refer to Full Of Hell simply as grindcore. Sure, you could still probably loosely refer to them as such, but they've also become so much more. Weeping Choir, the latest effort from this riproaring foursome, sits at an interesting place in their discography, feeling almost self referential in the sense that now Full Of Hell appear to be taking primary influence not from any outside party, but rather from their own prior material. The album thus feels like something of a grand encapsulation of everything they've yet done: there's a bit of the riff heavy, powerviolence approach from their debut here, some of the industrial and harsh noise antics from Rudiments, and of course the ugly undershades of black and death metal from Trumpeting Ecstasy get thrown in as well for good measure.

Indeed, if there's one aspect of Weeping Choir that's most impressive, it's Full Of Hell's ability to blend so many disparate genre influences together and maintain a sense of the unexpected in just under 25 minutes of music. A first impression from the album's opening track may lead one to believe they're sitting comfortably in the black/death-infused, Trumpeting Ecstasy-esque grind sound, but soon enough a midtempo approach more reminiscent of the band's earlier material rears its head on a track like "Thundering Hammers." To keep things from becoming too predictable, noise-heavy tracks such as "Rainbow Coil" and "Angels Gather Here" may pop up as well. Further still, another curveball enters the picture in the form of the almost drone doomy "Army Of Obsidian Glass," featuring guest vocals from the highly talented Lingua Ignota.

Perhaps more than ever, Weeping Choir demonstrates that Full Of Hell are a band not content to sit in any one area for too long a time, both between their albums as well as within each individual album. Consistently determined to challenge themselves, here they use their own material as a reference point, transitioning seamlessly through the various aspects of their musical personality while maintaining a brooding, unrelenting aura throughout. Becoming increasingly unusual and unhinged as they press onward, Weeping Choir arguably represents a peak in Full Of Hell's sonic experimenting, and raises the bar of anticipation high for where they may go from here.

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