Hopes Of Faulire

LPA

1. Sever The Head
2. Towers Of Dust

LPB

1. Barren Soil
2. Into The Sun

Aseethe's unrelenting slow-doom is often compared to drone music because of its core repetitions. This distinctly non-metal approach combined with harsh vocals and unusual samples gives Aseethe a unique voice among metal's boundary pushers. On Hopes Of Failure, the Iowa band's primary influences of doom and drone share a similar ethos, but rarely do they converge with as much restraint and patience, drawing on inventive sound sources and distorted, just enough, to add some sludge. Aseethe is the direction that heavy music is moving in.

Aseethe's self-released albums, with the exception of their 12-inch limited edition of Barn Owl covers (only 100 copies made) that extracted a Barn Owl riff into a side long piece, have been largely noise-influenced soundscapes. Hopes of Failure strips away much of those elements into the bare essentials focused on methodical, and crushing music by devoting all attention to creating mammoth-sized riffs. Lyrically Brian and Danny contemplate the steady, exponential decay of modern society.