One of the first crucial metal releases of 2023, the Texas trio's new album melds punishing death-grind with crushing doom-rock and lustrous melody; fans of Neurosis, Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, Crowbar, Mastodon, and Pink Floyd can all surrender to this beast. The Decline is a transcendent experience – a balance of sheer speed, earthquaking intensity, and rapturous beauty.
Guitarist/vocalist Nick Forkel, who also produced the album and created all the accompanying music videos, is backed by the monstrous rhythm section of Chris O'Toole (Unearth) and Jono Garrett (Mos Generator, Shock Withdrawal).
Stream the album, here: https://turbidnorth.bandcamp.com/album/the-decline
More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/10/turbid-north-decline.html
"Thick-stringed pummel, somewhere on the heady but heavy spectrum between Anciients and Today Is the Day with a kiss of Machine Head... Turbid North wields groove and paranoia simultaneously."
–Angry Metal Guy
"The meeting point between Black Sabbath and Napalm Death. They certainly nail the darker side of both bands."
–Decibel
"A unique and fascinating mix... Devoted as they are to all things utterly crushing, it doesn’t really matter if the band are blasting full-speed ahead or if they’ve slowed things to a glacial crawl as everything carries the same apocalyptic weight."
–Distorted Sound
"Turbid North have come quite a ways over the last 13 years since the technical/progressive death metal of Orogeny. While hints of that remain on The Decline, as well as some blunt grindcore, stretches of this album could be categorized as either space rock or stoner metal."
–Heavy Music HQ
"This is undoubtedly the first great album of the year."
–The Heavyist Podcast
"Thumpingly heavy... The riffs are just colossal but it's also very layered, very textured, and fluid."
–Metal Epidemic
"Wow this hits hard! The Decline sounds like old-old Mastodon if they were in a John Wick state of revenge rage. And it's also weirdly varied while remaining consistently heavy too."
–Metal Injection
“A wash of robust post-metal doom resplendent with droning vocal lines, echo-y guitars that swarm like a mass of hungry insectoids and an Americana bent... Layered industrialized overtones... Old heads should appreciate how it references recent Napalm Death albums with a bevy of smart tempo changes all wrapped up in a punishing demeanor."
–MetalSucks
"Lead-heavy doom riffs, mixed with bursts of vicious grind and topped off with psychedelic guitar runs that seem more at place on a Pink Floyd album than a Napalm Death one... A sublime listening experience."
–New Noise
"Turbid North severs arteries with vicious deathgrind in one second and gazes into the great beyond the next. An early contender for the best 2023 has to offer."
–Nine Circles
"Massively heavy riffs and gut-rumbling growls, swaggering, sludgy grooves and luridly proggy melodies."
–No Clean Singing
"Turbid North‘s The Decline is just as likely to be grind as doom at any given moment... No complaints, except maybe for the bruises."
–The Obelisk
"Grinding death metal with progressive doom styling and ostentatious sludge."
–V13
–Nine Circles
"Massively heavy riffs and gut-rumbling growls, swaggering, sludgy grooves and luridly proggy melodies."
–No Clean Singing
"Turbid North‘s The Decline is just as likely to be grind as doom at any given moment... No complaints, except maybe for the bruises."
–The Obelisk
"Grinding death metal with progressive doom styling and ostentatious sludge."
–V13
Photo by Nick Forkel
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