genres: deathgaze (or post-hardcore + shoegaze + deathcore)
If you threw Sunbather era Deafheaven and Like Moths to Flames into a blender, then added a bit of beatdown hardcore to the mix, whatever popped out would sound a whole lot like Mourn. This is a totally unrelenting wall of sound that trends towards the heavier end of metalcore, while also having a certain melancholic beauty buried somewhere under the brutality.
While it’s not quite as revolutionary a piece of art as Deafheaven’s Sunbather, I think the band is attempting many of the same experiments in a different extreme metal genre. Mourn similarly borrow the guitar and production techniques from shoegaze to create a massive atmosphere that encompasses everything else they do. While I think metalcore is the right genre reference point, there’s nothing formulaic here. Like recent Like Moths to Flames, there’s a blend of clean choruses with some of deathcore’s more rhythmic ideas, without either succumbing to overly poppy choruses or simply chaining breakdowns together. As debut EPs go, this is a very exciting release, and offers a glimpse of a band that may do some really exciting things in the near future.
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