Ends Embrace – We Will Never Die Review: A One-man Native American Black Metal project. October 1st, 2021, Ends Embrace independently released his debut studio album, We Will Never Die, which includes eight powerfully penned songs which would gratify fans of -early Darkthrone.
Ends Embrace – We Will Never Die Review opens and discusses the FIRST SIN: THE STRINGS/KEYS, which comprise raw and powerful guitar riffage and tremolo picking.
Let’s talk about the SECOND SIN: THE VOCALS, which involves gritty, primal vocals.
Moving on to the THIRD SIN: THE PERCUSSIONS, which delves into the vast world of a total arsenal battering of drum strikes and thrashy beats
In our following discussion about the band’s musical work, we will focus on the FOURTH SIN, the overall DISCUSSION of the album. As soon as the listener presses the play button, one is welcomed to the opening piece, SCORCHED EARTH, which welcomes the listener with the sound of wind rustling hauntingly and playing of indigenous (in tunes with one) pipe -following suit with scorched riffage of the guitar, percussions, and gritty, primal vocals, -closing the opening piece with the sound of the rustling-hauntingly wind.
Continuing with one’s journey with the second track, RIPPED AWAY, and the remaining six pieces -where the listener is taken on a lyrical concept journey that’s penned in a concept that’s dived into the topics of organised religion and the effects it’s had on indigenous cultures/communities.
The first half is storytelling of the horrors of Navajo lore (The Navajo creation story involves three underworlds where important events happened to shape the Fourth World where we now live. Their creators gave the Navajo the name Ni’hookaa Diyan Diné. It means “Holy Earth People”)
The last three pieces broke off in separate directions and spoke about the dark horrors of Christianity and organised religion altogether, setting the scene for the next release.
ENDS EMBRACE delivers and provides the listener with music and a reflection of the world’s view and how he and his people fit in it…
Delivering eight frantic songs that utilise an atmosphere of solitary loneliness, brutal, loud, heavy, full throttle -yet raw with the lo-fi effect reminiscent of the early black metal days of DARKTHRONE from the moment of pressing that play button.
WE WILL NEVER DIE is a creative and entertaining release that provides the listener’s ears with a musical spectrum that consists of fantastic orchestration of devilmanship. The production and sound are crisp/clear -topped with eight equally solid, strongly composed (well-written) songs/music utilising various characteristics such as multiple tempos and audio clips -which add more depth/character to the music, sick instrumental artistry of raw and powerful riffage/tremolo pickings of the guitar, gritty & primal vocals, hammering of the drums. At the same time, the beats have these thrashy and doom-style breakdowns, which are convenient at the right moment and capture the mood/atmosphere of the musical theme.
I wanted to share our thoughts and MEMORABILIA on the FIFTH SIN. The music has the feel and sound of early DARKTHRONE, but the opening half of the release is eye-opening and offers history to learn from.
Let’s discuss the ARTWORK of the SIXTH SIN. The artwork is powerful and dark, but it captures Indigenous life after death: “The common aspect is the idea that a person’s spirit lives on after their physical death and journeys into the afterlife.”
Finally, the review will close with the last sin, the SEVENTH SIN, the DISRELISH and the closing piece, THE HOUSE OF GOD BURNS With nothing to disrelish within the musical world of ENDS EMBRACE we can move on with the closing piece, THE HOUSE OF GOD BURNS 1, opens up with an audio clip sample of “news coverage of the recently uncovered children’s graves discovered at antiquated assimilation schools in Canada” -opening with an aggressive blasting tempo of snare snapping, with a mournful guitar melody accompanied by howling vocals -following close behind with the beat abruptly changes to a harsh thrashing and rapid gun-firing riffage and howling screams of anger -indicates and captures the pain, the horror and countless tragedies within the song. This concludes the Ends Embrace – We Will Never Die Review.
We Will Never Die Song-listing:
- Scorched Earth
- Ripped Away
- Shine the Torch
- Internal Scream
- As Time Comes To An End
- The Return
- We Will Never Die
- The House of God Burns
Ends Embrace Members:
- Ryan Silas (everything)
- “The House of God Burns.” Doing some research and reading the article about the horrors of what went on/the discovery of the graves, etc. -the story was heartbreaking and hit you like an express train -to read and discover this story. Something like this should have never happened! ↩︎
