Three Steps To The Ocean - Migration Light - review
Three Steps To The Ocean - Migration Light - review
Tracklist
01. They02. Sur
03. Dust Bowl
04. Sulaco
05. I End
06. Wooden Shelter
07. Primordial Leavers
A review by
tea[m]ster April 15, 2015
Again, to gain notoriety, "post" bands nowadays have to sound different than other "post" bands or do the generic blue print very well. Three Steps To The Ocean have embraced and done both superbly. The guitars feature heavenly tremolo-picked textures, light feedback riffs and raw, layered, down tuned chord progressions. The bass and drums sound particularly dense and when added to very pronounced ethereal keyboards, electronics and programming, Migration Light is an ever-evolving project featuring the best mixtures of dark post rock and organic sludge metal. Doom, black metal, and some ambient junctures give the album some variety and the production is done so well one might think this band is part of some huge record company. This may all seem intricate but Three Steps To The Ocean have managed to create an audio pronunciation that's very plausible, emotional and fun to listen to.
Migration Light is a rather short excursion for music of this kind. Clocking in at just over 30 minutes, Three Steps To The Ocean have delicately mingled many musical influences into a meaningful, compact package. There is plenty of ingenuity, depth and value to satisfy the most hardcore post rock/metal enthusiast while also being able to hold enough interest to metal music lovers new to the genre. All of the different musical traits in Migration Light never feel rushed, fake, or bombastic. We metal music veterans know when a band is trying to pull a fast one on us just for the sake of sounding divergent. Three Steps To The Ocean are legitimate.
For a similar band taste, if you dig Year Of No Light, head on over to Three Steps To The Ocean's bandcamp page. You can download their ENTIRE discography for free. I have thrown them a few bucks, hopefully helping them garner the recognition they so well deserve.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 8 |
| Production: | 9 |
Written on 15.04.2015 by
Written on 15.04.2015 by
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Isnt it little boring listen such instrumental albums  like Joe Satyianni , 10 instrumental albums ... ?
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Very interesting review. I saw them live at the time of their debut and I really got impressed by their music and live performance. I'm glad to see they rose so far to some notoriety and I'll check it out for sure!
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