(Andy Synn takes a trip to Infant Island on their new album, Obsidian Wreath)
What’s in a name, they say?
Well, when it comes to genre-names the answer can be… quite a lot, as it happens.
Case in point, depending on what tags I apply to Obsidian Wreath – call it “Screamo”, call it “Blackgaze”, call it “Post-Metal” – your reactions, and your expectations, might be wildly different.
The truth, of course, is that it’s actually a little bit of all these things, equally indebted to the likes of Pg. 99 and Envy as it is latter-day Panopticon and early Deafheaven, with the end result being… well, you’ll just have to read on to find out, won’t you?