INTER ARMA 'Sulphur English'

Richmond's INTER ARMA, reigning masters of the slow build, continue to trace a distinctly ambitious trajectory through modern metal. Their impulses tend toward the epic, but never bloat; they meld several styles — doom, sludge, and hard psych — without coming off like dilettantes. This newest full-length, 'Sulphur English', finds them mining deeper in the proggy organic doom fields that made both 'Paradise Gallows' and 'Sky Burial' so thrilling while expanding further on the psych-folk strain that made those albums' peaks seem so lofty.