I Let It In & It Took Everything [Import CD]

Loathe have been making waves in the British underground heavy music scene since their inception in 2014. Debut full-length The Cold Sun was a heady hybrid of meaty down-tuned riffs, lacerating screams and pile-driving rhythms. I Let It In and It Took Everything retains those elements, albeit delivered with a searing potency and sharpened focus that bests it's predecessor in almost every conceivable way. Rather than existing within one style or taking one approach, Loathe pepper their music with a range of influences and musical motifs that move fluidly and give the Liverpool quintet a dynamism that was merely hinted at before.

Their palette has widened significantly and surprises are plentiful; shimmering guitars, layered synths, unhinged guitar effects, a stronger emphasis on ethereal clean vocals and even elements that echo the sheer sonic brutality that epitomizes black metal.

1. Theme
2. Aggressive Evolution
3. Broken Vision Rhythm
4. Two-Way Mirror
5. 451 Days
6. New Faces In The Dark
7. Red Room
8. Screaming
9. Is It Really You? 1
10. Gored 1
11. Heavy Is The Head That Falls With The Weight Of A Thousand Thoughts 1
12. A Sad Cartoon 1
13. A Sad Cartoon (Reprise) 1
14. I Let It In And It Took Everything.