Big Business
The Beast You Are
Joyful Noise Recordings
Most doom metal songs are made to get lost in. 20-minute (or an hour) long epics arenβt a rarity. Big Business gets right to the point. Almost every track on their most recent The Beast You Are has a melody you can hum, a huge riff, and not much else.
Thereβs still enough diversity to keep things from getting repetitive. βHeal the Weakβ borders on a Queens of the Stone Age-type radio friendliness.Β βTime and Heatβ tacks strings on to a heavy riff. There are two little interludes that add new sounds, but in keeping with the rest of the album, theyβre pared down.
Itβs a fine line between playing to your strengths and playing it safe, but on The Beast You Are, Big Business mostly does the former. Itβs everything great about doom metal in miniature. If you think thatβs an oxymoron, take a listen.
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SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: BIG BUSINESS – THE BEAST YOU ARE
Matt Morris