Album review: Greyhaven – This Bright And Beautiful World

Don’t let the title fool you. Kentucky’s Greyhaven haven’t had a change of heart for this third full-length. For while its title might suggest songs about roses, the 10 tracks that comprise This Bright And Beautiful World are much more like the writhing, wriggling maggots in a decaying corpse. Which is to say that, four years on from the coruscating tales of 2018’s second effort, Empty Black, the progressive post-hardcore four-piece have returned with their glasses even emptier and blacker.  That’s clear from the off. Opener In A Room Where Everything Dies is an apoplectic surge of intense darkness that pulls as few punches as its title. A discordant, discombobulating sonic journey that takes on the weight of eternity in its three minutes, it sounds like an ep...

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