‘Meet Your Maker’ by Withering Surface

Artists

  • Michael H Andersen / Vocals

  • Jakob Moller Gundel / Drums

  • Allan Tvedebrink / Guitar

  • Marcel Lysgaard Lech / Guitar

  • Morten Lybecker / Keyboards

  • Jesper Kvist / Bass

Rating

Musical Feel

Emotion
Grandiosity

Song / Album Composition

Melody
Structure
Pulse

Tracks

  • Meet Your Maker

  • Raised Right

  • Alone

  • Room 417

  • In A City Without Soul

  • Leaves In The Stream

  • I’ll Soon Be Gone

  • Mourning Light

  • The Apprentice

Withering Surface return with their first new album in 15 years, and boy is it a good one.

“Meet Your Maker,” the title track is a haunting monster of a song. One that enables Withering Surface to show off their skills in fits and spurts. Enabling a shifting policy to take hold as things progress.

“Raised Right,” a song that hits like a battering ram. A song that ventures forth from the abyss and claims the listener in a stranglehold and refuses to let go.

“Alone,” is a battering ram to the face. A song that harkens back to the olden times of Withering Surface. There’s a slap of heaviness, a slap of brutality and then a tiny slap of melody mixed in between.

“Room 417,” is a machine. It moves with freneticism on the back of a riff designed to deliver a full pulverising for those listening, and boy does it pull it off well.

“In A City Without Soul,” thunders into being. Withering Surface changes the focus of the listener toward a far more aggressive form of search.

“Leaves In The Stream,” turns the light into dark. Withering Surface deliver a crushing blow to the back of the listener’s focus.

“I’ll Soon Be Gone,” is another song with a primal focus. A song that creeps along pathways and sonnets and twists the meaning toward destruction.

“Mourning Light,” ventures into being, smashing the doors and lighting the fire into chaos.

“The Apprentice,” swells with anger and passion, a fitting finale.

The album is out on 19th June via Mighty Music.