EP review: Heriot – Profound Morality

There’s heavy and then there’s heavy. Midlands maulers Heriot are definitely in the latter category, you know, the one you find the likes of Nails hanging out in. Having previously released their music a drip at a time, and launched during the lockdown, they have regardless started making quite the name for themselves, and building a solid reputation for their blistering live show. Now, they release their debut salvo, the eight-track Profound Morality, and it’s a hell of a way to properly introduce themselves. They kick things off with industrial instrumental Abaddon, and then they attack, frantically, with Coalescence, mixing breakneck violence with the slow and eerie. Across the tracks, whether the guitars are hacking out simpler riffs or are more contorted ...

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