Published: May 26, 2023

If you head north from New York’s Big Apple, you can travel along the Hudson River until the city is a distant memory. The Hudson Valley is rich with wildlife and trees. Every year the foliage blooms with color, then withers as winter approaches. But even when the days are cold and at their shortest, rebirth is just a season change away. Inherus formed in that setting in 2018, uniting Brian Harrigan (Grid, Swa...

Published: May 26, 2023

What if Opeth were as post as they are prog? The influence of the pioneers of progressive death metal are clear on this first album from Inherus, but its inventive blend with post-metal make it more than worthwhile in its own right.

Five songs – excluding a short interlude – each close to ten minutes or even longer is an intimidating prospect. If your tolerance for repetition is low, this is not the album for you, but what do you exp...

Published: May 26, 2023

The four-piece heavy music band Inherus is hard to describe with a single tag. I like doom so I would call them doom, but they aren’t doom in a traditional sense. There are progressive elements in the music, but I wouldn’t call them a prog band. I used the “post-metal” label in the slug line, but I am not even sure what that is. How about this: Inherus combine elements that, on paper, might not seem to go together very well,...

Published: May 26, 2023

It takes a full hour to listen to Inherus’ debut album Beholden, and this gigantic record isn’t one to take lightly. Five of the six songs are at least ten minutes long (or a few seconds away from that distinction) and only closer “Lie To The Angels” kicks into a higher gear with the death metal-inspired break in its latter half. The harsh vocals come into the forefront during this section, a jarring counterpoint to the crisp mel...

Published: May 25, 2023

Die Anfänge der Band Inherus gehen auf das Jahr 2018 zurück, als Anthony DiBlasi (Witchkiss) und Brian Harrigan (GRID, Swallow the Ocean) im New Yorker Hudson Valley ihre kreative Kraft miteinander vereinten. Es dauerte nicht lange, bis Harrigans Bandkollege von Swallow the Ocean Andrew Vogt (auch bei Lotus Thief) dazustieß. Vervollständigt wurde das Line-Up durch den Beitritt von Beth Gladding (ebenfalls bei Lotus Thief, sowie be...

Published: May 24, 2023

You know that scene in The Last of Us where we first meet the clickers, which can’t see but are attracted to the slightest sound? This is how I regard my fellow AMG scribes, as sightless fungi that I must not alert to the tastiest morsels in the sump until that point in time when AMG Promo Pit Rules allow me to make a breakneck sprint for the album I’ve been eyeing up. Until then, I have to stay absolutely silent. So it was that for...

Published: May 19, 2023

The first question – well, to be really truthful, maybe not the first, but one of the first – that pops up my mind when I get a new album to review is what contribution this band and this album are giving to Metal music. It’s such a natural question if one thinks the quantity of albums and bands we receive to be reviewed here everyday. I’d add that this is a very important question to decide which albums will be reviewed. So many ...

Published: May 10, 2023

Een combinatie van doom, gothic en post metal: daar zeg ik zeker geen “nee” tegen. En laat dit nu net het genre zijn waar de Amerikaanse band Inherus uit New York mee uitpakt op hun debuutalbum. Twee leden van Swalllow The Ocean en Beth Gladding, zangeres bij Lotus Thief: geef toe: niet mis. En dat hoor je al direct op ‘Forgotten Kingdom’, een dijk van een nummer dat er al meteen stevig invliegt met Sabbathiaanse riffs (schitterend), ...