This sound quality improvement shows during dueling bass and guitar runs like the fretboard-burning intro to “Eternal Suicide” or in the clarity of the lead work from guest virtuoso Mattias Eklundh ( Freak Kitchen, Freak Guitar, and oh so many guest appearances). Unsurprisingly too, since their Picture Box EP from 2019, Black Water Sunset has also taken some time to polish up their tones, boasting a more bottom-heavy rhythm guitar drive and cone-crunching bass boom.

Though they’re not going to play an underpopulated show anytime soon at your local bowling alley bar or dirty couch-laden warehouse, can Black Water Sunset at least cast a long shadow on your ever-expanding Bandcamp collection?Ĭaught somewhere between a groovy progressive death summoning and a thrash-empowered melodeath drill, Black Water Sunset resurrects classic sounds in a tightly performed package, complete with a session drum appearance by veteran kit crusher George Kollias ( Nile, ex- Contrarian ). Where and how did all these people meet? Who knows?! But they’ve been hard at work crafting their debut full-length release Engraved Spectral Aeons. Such is the case for the emerging and un-experimental Black Water Sunset, comprised of the unlikely duo of Alvin Primack of Pittsburgh, PA and Darick Joyce of California (and a host of international guests). Collaborators don’t even have to live near each other anymore.

1 Not every project will come forth with that same adventurous drive or unique approach, but when the days of heavy metal headliners selling out arenas are limited to the lifespan of those who have already been there, do they have to? Regardless, for those with a will and a DAW, the hope of some kind of success still lives. The DIY spirit that drives the smaller nooks of the modern music industry, particularly the bedroom/home studio metal scene, can birth acts from the loop-driven and mechanical Cloudkicker to the weird and whimsical Veilburner.

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