(Andy Synn kicks off his week with a bit of down-under Deathcore violence courtesy of Zeolite)
People often ask me – well, not so much “often” as “occasionally” – how I keep up with everything that’s released each week.
And my answer is… I don’t!
Oh, I used to run myself ragged trying to have an opinion on every album or EP that came out, but I soon realised that a) this wasn’t good for me (and was stopping me from actually enjoying my life), and b) every single one of these releases actually deserved more of my time and attention if I wanted to do them justice (which is why I’m so sceptical/scornful when people claim to have listened to 100+ albums every month… as they’re clearly more concerned with showing off the quantity, rather than the quality, of their listening).
And so I made the decision (the healthy decision, I think) to work smarter, rather than harder, going forwards, and to focus more on just covering whatever I felt most enthusiastic about – whatever I felt I had some insight into or that I had an interesting angle on – so that I could dedicate more time to fewer albums overall.
Which brings me to L’Appel Du Vide, the recently-released second album from Australian Brutal/Technical Deathcore/Death Metal crew Zeolite.