None But a Pure Heart Can Sing, the new album by So Hideous, is out today on Silent Pendulum Records.
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"None But a Pure Heart Can Sing is the best experimental black metal album of 2021."
–MetalSucks
"Combining symphonic elements with an antagonistic angst-aggregation of post-black/shoegaze/hardcore, So Hideous strikes at the heart with a sweeping combination of majestic grandeur and knife-in-the-gut agony."
–Invisible Oranges
"[None But a Pure Heart Can Sing] injects the band's usual orchestral post-black metal sound with some clear jazz and Afrobeat influence."
–BrooklynVegan
"None But a Pure Heart Can Sing, their triumphant return, has plenty of the blueprint that makes up So Hideous: the use of strings, the intimate fury, the sheer evocativeness of their music, have all been maintained. But they have also been refined. Distilled. Run through a sieve and cleansed of every single ounce of fat."
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy
"So Hideous had little to prove after 2015’s Laurestine. They had already demonstrated their mastery, creating emotive post-black metal that authentically incorporated chamber music in a way that I have heard none of their contemporaries accomplish. Yet, with None But a Pure Heart Can Sing, the band establish themselves less as black metal musicians and more as cinematic composers with metal as only one of many genres they can masterfully draw from to express themselves.
–Everything Is Noise
"Combining black metal, screamo, post-hardcore and orchestral compositions, their songs flow with equal amounts of grace, beauty, chaos and heartache... There’s always one December release that threatens to shake up my year-end thoughts, and None but a Pure Heart Can Sing is definitely that album."
–Nine Circles
"The cinematic qualities of their songwriting are at peak performance... Even when the band’s blackened heart takes charge, fury hasn’t been this blissful in a long time. None But A Pure Heart Can Sing is a marvelous album to close out the year with."
–Heavy Music HQ
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