North, an Arizona metal band

I don’t know if this Tuc­son-based met­al band is still active, but I rather like their 2008 album What You Were, which trots along loud­ly, with grow­ly vocals by Kyle Hardy, at a steady, unrushed pace. I’m not sure if they would be called “melod­ic met­al” or “post-rock” in the cur­rent jar­gon, but there is both melod­ic and ryth­mic sophis­ti­ca­tion in most of the songs. “Eidolon” and “Falling In Per­petu­um” stand out among the tracks. The album has a fine bal­ance, sequenc­ing the songs to good effect in a genre which tends to turn albums into undif­fer­en­ti­at­ed blurs. I also have an EP from the same year, Ruins.

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