Part doom sludge, part metalcore, part Isis’ cathartic cyclical, warm ebbs and flows of fuzz, all delivered with the kind of powerful, attention-grabbing production that you should expect from a band on the Relapse label, Buried Inside’s Chronoclast is one hell of a ride.

If this album had been a one-trick pony of doom sludge, I would have passed it on in hopes of finding a more clement reviewer. However, it’s Chronoclast’s dynamics that partly make it so good. Slow, churning movements rapidly erupt into squalls of furious drumming with equally intense, intricate and tightly played musicianship around it, only to flow back out like a massive tide.

Indeed, the album isn’t so much about individual songs, but more about being a whole of an encompassing cyclical being incorporating smaller cycles within it. If you dug Comity’s The Deus Ex-Machina as a Forgotten Genius, or are into Isis, we think you should definitely get this. (8.2/10)