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In order to really enjoy Trysth’s album ‘Soulchambers’, you have to have some faith. As with any good music in the doom metal genre, there are some boring moments on the album if they’re taken out of context. When listened to as a cohesive bit of art, though, ‘Soulchambers’ is like a journey, always one step ahead of the listener, toying with them. The first seven minutes of the album, a one minute instrumental intro followed by the six minute ‘Spine of Snakes’ (also instrumental), are a masterpiece themselves as far as tension building goes. The distortion doesn’t even drop until two minutes into the song, leaving the album with a three minute intro of just abstract noises and trippy guitar coupled with an almost tribal drumbeat. Once the nice, heavy first riff of ‘Spine of Snakes’ comes in, you can feel it even more, and you’re waiting for it to go all the way – ready for someone to start screaming at you, ready for some shredding fuzzed out, wah-heavy solo, ready for a chorus, a verse, anything, but Trysth isn’t going to give it to you that easy. The steady increase in tempo subsides eventually coupled with a slow outro solo to usher in ‘Ordeal Vision’, which is where the album really kicks it into overdrive. This thirteen minute epic initially picks up where ‘Spine of Snakes’ left off, keeping up with the slow intense riffing that you can feel all the way in your gut, even if the volume isn’t turned up all the way (but if that’s how you’re listening to the album, fuck o
