LANAYAH are based in Southern California and they are releasing their third opus with this one. This is a concept album and it was first imagined as one song album of fourty minutes, but was later cut into eight pieces which complement and fit one into another perfectly. Now, the music of LANAYAH is not easy to describe. It is a bit experimental. I will try to describe it as mixture of doomgaze, post rock, post metal and some post black metal influences thrown in the song structures. I can also hear some sludge over and undertones making this music musty, heavy and hard to process if you are not into such kind of music. But, when you listen to the album carefully as a whole you will get the bigger picture and come to grasp what the band tried to create with their wall of sound, tortured vocals, noisy riffs, thundering bass distortion and some electronics thrown in for good measure. My personal favorites are heavy hitters like ‘Staring Blankly’, ‘Knife Mirror’ and epic ‘Carrying Fire’ which is longest song of the record but it was an interesting listening for me. If you are into something different, you will love what Lanayah does.

7,5/10 axes