Paradise Gallows

by Inter Arma

Paradise Gallows cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 July 2016
  • Label: Relapse
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:33:38
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Joe Kerkes, Joseph Allred, T.J. Childers, Jon Liedtke, Mike Paparo

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Richmond quintet unleashes a towering, 71-minute epic that effortlessly bounds across various subgenres of extreme metal. The record balances agonizing, suffocating sludge-metal riffs and death-doom pacing with surprisingly beautiful acoustic interludes and clean vocal passages. It was universally hailed as their magnum opus, showcasing unparalleled versatility and ambition within modern atmospheric metal.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, sprawling, monolithic, long-form, genre-blending

Tracklist

  1. Nomini (2:30)
  2. An Archer in the Emptiness (7:20)
  3. Transfiguration (9:10)
  4. Primordial Wound (10:01)
  5. The Summer Drones (6:46)
  6. Potomac (6:00)
  7. The Paradise Gallows (11:41)
  8. Violent Constellations (11:13)
  9. Where the Earth Meets the Sky (28:53)

Credits

  • Inter Arma - primary artist
  • Orion Landau - artwork
  • Joe Kerkes - bass
  • T.J. Childers - drums, guitar [guitars], acoustic guitar [acoustic guitars], lap steel guitar [lap steel], keyboards, synthesizer [synthesizers], noises [noise], vocals
  • Steven Russell - guitar [guitars]
  • Trey Dalton - guitar [guitars], keyboards, vocals
  • Joseph Allred - harmonium
  • Jon Liedtke - theremin

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