A Storm Of Light – Anthroscene digiCD 2018

The description of “apocalypse core” and “post-everything” on their Facebook bio is a pretty apt description away from the usual genre tags for this American four piece. The latest album and fifth full length offering from A STORM OF LIGHT, Anthroscene, was put together by each of the band members recording their own parts separately as they are spread out across the country and then everything was brought together by frontman Josh Graham. The resulting collection has just been released through Belgian label ConSouling Sounds.

Anthroscene opens with the haunting and subdued Prime Time which immediately throws each of the album’s respective parts together and gives you a lead towards their influences. There are healthy amounts of KILLING JOKE, PAILHEAD, MINISTRY and BIG BLACK, among others, to be found in there and each of the eight songs offers up a different dystopian look at the world, with them all coming together into one solid block of work.