- Country: Canada
- Style: Death metal / Technical death metal
- Label: 20 Buck Spin
- Release date: 19 July 2019
Three full-lengths in three years usually means a band is running on fumes by the third one. Toronto’s Tomb Mold went the other way. Planetary Clairvoyance is seven songs and roughly 38 minutes, and it sounds like a band that has just figured out what it can do and can’t wait to show you.
“Beg For Life” sets the rules early: a thick, rolling riff, then a sudden clean acoustic passage that has no business being on a record this filthy and works anyway. The title track and “Infinite Resurrection” lean harder into twisting, technical riffing, and the doomy crawl of Manor of Infinite Forms has mostly been traded for speed and odd, spacey leads.
Arthur Rizk’s mix keeps all of it legible without sanding off the grime, so you can actually follow the guitars through the busiest parts of “Accelerative Phenomenae” and “Cerulean Salvation”. If anything drags, it’s the middle of “Heat Death”, which takes a while to land its punch. Small complaint. This is the most adventurous old-school death metal record of the year.
Best tracks:
Beg For Life
Planetary Clairvoyance (They Grow Inside Pt 2)
Infinite Resurrection
Cerulean Salvation
Author’s rating: 8.9/10
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