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By Chris Bryson<\/b><\/p>\n
Music has always been an expression of the self and a space for reflections of the world around us. Wilt\u2019s third album <\/span>Ruin<\/span><\/i> is defined as an intended concept album, one that their Bandcamp page describes as encompassing \u201cthe frailty of man and explores the feelings death, forgiveness, shame and guilt. Inspired by Cormac McCarthy\u2019s <\/span>The Road<\/span><\/i>.\u201d Wilt\u2019s <\/span>Ruin<\/span><\/i>, follows a similar path.<\/span><\/p>\n Like its stated inspiration and Wilt\u2019s style of music, <\/span>Ruin <\/span><\/i>is an expanse of fury and degradation. \u201cInto the Unknown\u201d aptly describes the album\u2019s opening ascent. A slow burner of apocalyptic proportion\u2013a solemn riff awakening the listener to the ruins that surround them, preparing them for their forsaken pilgrimage, with singer Jordan Dorge\u2019s strangled black metal scream your guide through the shimmering wasteland. \u201cWe Read the World Wrong\u201d takes the listener further, transitioning between relentless blasts, restrained surges and fiery arpeggios, it\u2019s a vision of that world seen through a blaze of fire, arising in waves, in swells of intensity, where all around you, it continues to burn.<\/span><\/p>\n The intro to \u201cA Summons has Come\u201d feels like the days are lost, and the world continues to crumble. Vanquished screams scrape over slow-rising chords up a ragged stone staircase. The song builds with scaling arpeggios that rise and fall through hellish terrain. As the longest song on the album, this is the hardened test for survival. \u201cVeil of Gold\u201d unfurls with woozy doom metal guitars, Dorge\u2019s black metal scream seeming more subsided, as the melodies follow his somber words with portentous reflection, the world around becoming the world inside.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cRequiem\u201d traverses the divide. The tone of the world begins to open up. It\u2019s still very heavy, but there are rays of hope on the horizon. <\/span>Ruin<\/span><\/i>\u2019s blackened elegance<\/span> finds Wilt digging into darkened worlds, searching for humanity in the madness. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Chris Bryson Music has always been an expression of the self and a space for reflections of the world around us. Wilt\u2019s third album Ruin is defined as an intended concept album, one that their Bandcamp page describes as encompassing \u201cthe frailty of man and explores the feelings death, forgiveness, shame and guilt. Inspired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1239,796,1238,1237],"class_list":["post-11077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-on-the-road","tag-review","tag-ruin","tag-wilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}