VARIALS - In Darkness (Lp) (LP)

With their second album In Darkness, Philadelphia's Varials traffic in moshy-metal. While the music is heavy enough to shift tectonic plates, it's not merely about crowd-killing breakdowns - although those exist in spades on the record. Rather, the band explores other aspects of heavy from the lyrics to the tones to the song structures to the melodies. It's a sonically dense, precise, and intense record, and it's not pretty. The same can be said about the lyrics. Track Listing Side A 1. Wound, 2. I Suffocate, 3. In Darkness, 4. Bleeding, 5. (fear), 6. South of One, 7. Romance Side B 1. Obstacle III, 2. i against i, 3. Splinter, 4. The Love Machine, 5. (save room), 6. Deathsong, 7. (untitled), 8. Maze