{"id":83775,"date":"2018-08-23T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=83775"},"modified":"2018-08-23T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T17:04:39","slug":"review-conan-existential-void-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-conan-existential-void-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Conan – Existential Void Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What a time to be a caveman.<\/p>\n

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UK trio Conan<\/strong> add a fourth full-length to their quite impressive discography, which now spans about ten years and includes splits with partners in stoner doom crime\u00a0Bongripper<\/strong> and Slomatics<\/strong> (and yes, I mostly mention this to be able to include the awesome cover art<\/a> of the latter). With their brand of “Caveman Battle Doom”, they’ve spared no effort to reach ever new lows of fuzzy heaviness, and paired this with a trademark vocal style that truly made it deserving of the fancy moniker. However, their last record, Revengeance<\/em>, has seen them experiment more with higher tempos, which before were approached tentatively, if at all. They pulled it off well, but juxtaposing this with their usual monumental style delivered at a lumbering pace didn’t always go smoothly. All in all, it was still a great album, leaving me curious as to whether a slight change of style was in the cards.<\/p>\n

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Long-time fans who were iffy about the up-tempo excursions will be relieved upon pressing play on Existential Void Guardian<\/em>, as opener “Prosper On The Path” begins to flatten them with a low-end attack crawling along at about five miles per hour. Mercilessly and methodically, the thundering riffs pound the ground like some enraged behemoth. Together with “Eye To Eye To Eye”, “Amidst The Infinite”, and preview track “Vexxagon”, this song delivers what people who listen to Conan listen to Conan for, and it’s once again done damn well.<\/p>\n