Album Review: The White Swan – “The White”
Though she provided backing vocals while occupying the
space behind the drum set in nu-metal darlings KiTTiE, Mercedes Lander is a
Jill-of-all-trades in The White Swan, her new heavy AF offshoot, handling vocals,
drums, guitars and keyboards on their latest EP The White. After channeling Neurosis on opener “North Carolina,” a
six-minute-plus mountainous slab of instrumental doom metal, Lander takes
center stage, her dissonant vocals awash in a barrage of thunderous drumming
and towering fuzzed out riffs (“Lions” features downtuned guitars and stunning,
ethereal hooks, “The White” is a straight up stomping homage to late 70’s Black
Sabbath with a slight tip of the cap to early Alice in Chains). The White Swan
could not be more diametrically opposed to the sound of Lander’s day job and
that’s not a bad thing.
Go Download: “Lions”
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