5 Best Metal Albums Of August 2018
4. Leeched – You Took The Sun When You Left
You Took the Sun When You Left is evil incarnate. There really is nothing else to say that can do this monstrous debut the justice it deserves.
Over the course of 34 minutes, it perpetuates nothing but the most ambivalent and brutal of unforgiving hardcore. And, unlike Mantar, there are no hook-driven undercurrents to soften the blow of this industrially-tinged punch to the nether regions. On their first ever full-length outing, following on from the equally destructive EP Nothing Will Grow from the Rotten Ground, the powerviolent Mancunians Leeched provide a bleak experience that lives up to its gothic title.
It is so consistent in its brutish mania that it stuns ears and smashes skulls on the first few spins, yet it also, over time, transforms into a fantastically cathartic outlet: a result of its continuous demands of headbanging, screaming and moshing, even from those that are listening by themselves in their bedroom at 11 p.m.
You Took the Sun When You Left is an album focused and driven by its blackness, but its anger also eventually lets the album do a 180 and become a joyous exercise in expelling a fan’s inner turmoils through music.