Album review: Vnder A Crvmbling Moon – I: Oblivion

Does the band-name for new British post-metal collective Vnder A Crvmbling Moon remind anyone else of the old childhood ruse that Earth’s lunar satellite was really made of cheese? Just us? Good. Because devastating debut I: Oblivion (February’s 0.1: The Prelude, first released when VACM were called ​‘The New Sun’, doesn’t count) hits not like some sphere of insubstantial Stilton but with the force of a cast-iron cannonball square in the gut. It’s hardly surprising. Featuring members of some of UK underground metal’s finest acts – Garganjua, Conjurer, Codex Alimentarius – the collective already know their way around neck-rending riffs and fathomless grooves. What’s more remarkable here is how there’s no ​‘supergroup’ disjointedness in the songwriting, but rather weighty self...

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