Debut albums are always an intresting topic. They are always your first impression of how band might be. Some bands strike you immidately by how good their first album Other bands evolve and get better as time goes on. Howl is one of those bands who strike upon first listen.
Full Of Hell is actually one of the most impressive debut albums of the past few years. Howl's mix of Mastodon sludge and Saint Vitus doom is very effective. The styles are rarely more effectively combined or done with such precision. I would have to stay though the most impressive thing about this record is the riffs. Howl writes some of the best riffs I have heard in quite some time. The riffs are extremely heavy yet slow and pretty. How tight the band plays together is also quite the feat. They sound like they have put about 4 or 5 albums already. Most bands wish they had Howl's level of cohesiveness.
If Howl keeps up at this pace they will be joining Mastodon,Baroness and Kylesa as sludge legends. Though this only their debut album, if they keep up the slick riffs, awesome sludge/doom fusion and their spectauclar coheviseness they will be pretty much be a tour-de force band. Howl is one of the bands to watch for the next couple of years and I think they will explode. Howl has enormous potential and I am eagerly awaiting their next release.
4/5 Stars
Standout Tracks
1.Gods In Broken Men
2.Jezebel
3.You Jackals Beware
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