Album review: Devil Sold His Soul – Loss

Grief expresses itself in many forms. Sorrow. Outrage. Fear. A lingering confusion at what, if anything, this all means. All of these conditions haunt the grooves of Devil Sold His Soul​’s fourth record – their first in nearly decade. Writing sessions for Loss were marked by the death of friends and family, yet also a sense of new possibilities with the return of vocalist Ed Gibbs. These conflicting states and residual feelings of guilt are most pronounced on Burdened. ​‘At what cost will we survive?’ Ed asks amid blastbeats and iron-plated riffs. No answer is forthcoming in the atmospheric breaks between onslaughts, waves of regret crashing and receding in the line, ​‘Drown it all and start this all again.’ That line, shared between Ed and co-vocalist Paul Green, also highl...

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