EP Review: Flood Peak – Fixed Ritual (Anima Recordings)

Anima Recordings presents Portland trio Flood Peak’s EP, Fixed Ritual, which arrives on the 22nd January 2021 on cassette and digital formats.

The dissonant sound of Flood Peak’s blackened post metal sound is designed to remove the listener from their comfort zone. To muddy and obscure the mind so their unsettling brand of intensity seeps into every pore.

The word to use when describing what they’re doing on Fixed Ritual is ‘unsettling’. Simply because of how they mesh chaotic and droning post rhythm with sludgy riffs, crashing percussion and throat-shredding vocal roars that sound distant and discombobulated.

It’s five tracks long and each adds even more bitterness and acrimony to the mind. It’s not a ‘feel-good’ record. Aside from the quality of what Flood Peak are delivering here which will put a big smile on the face. Even when the pace is dropped to a more ‘mellow’ level such as in part of Way of the Sea and Sectarian Hilt, it stills comes across so threatening.

This EP leaves a very strong impression.

Flood Peak – Fixed Ritual Full Track Listing:

1. Urnfield
2. Salve Curator
3. Feral Wraiths
4. Way of the Sea
5. Sectarian Hilt

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