One with the Riverbed
Succumb


4.2
excellent

Review

by jesper STAFF
October 25th, 2024 | 8 replies


Release Date: 10/25/2024 | Tracklist

Review Summary: might transport you to an autumnal forest

Three minutes is all it takes for Succumb to reveal its intentions. While a violent assault opens One With the Riverbed’s third full length, “Succumb” unfolds and allows space for quiet melodies to develop into a grand, sweeping conclusion. It’s the kind of track that would have been the closer on a lesser album, but makes perfect sense as an introduction as it transitions into the more explicitly blackened tones of “Dominion” - a cut so ferocious that the downright gorgeous post-rock tendencies of its latter half transform into something eerier, something haunting. It’s one of Succumb’s most remarkable feats: each lush, melodic note feels drenched in the ominous nature of all that came before and is certain to follow.

It is this very sense of dynamics that allows the record to grow into its own with each passage. Songs take shape, shift, and rebuild themselves persistently - while this is a structure that can get somewhat predictable, it never feels unwarranted or unnecessary. Moreover, the way a cut like “Purified” seamlessly transitions its near-ambient meanderings into devastating blackened post-metal makes the song, and by extension the record, feel complete. It’s the kind of album where each moment sounds, pick your adjective, pretty/overwhelming/pensive/grand, but it is the full, uninterrupted experience that solidifies Succumb as near-hypnotic. The larger-than-life “Sunlight” closes the record on a highlight, carefully showcasing the excellence of each instrument once more - whether this be the pained screams or the way drums crash and flow into the looming atmosphere - and see to the realisation of the project’s organically overwhelming vision. It takes three minutes to understand where Succumb wants to go, but it takes fifty-three to realise it’s been there all along.




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JesperL
Staff Reviewer
October 25th 2024


5669 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

good stuff yes

Hawks
October 26th 2024


93776 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This sounds right up my alley. Gotta jam asap.

Hawks
October 26th 2024


93776 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah this is pretty good shizzzz.

Durrzo
October 26th 2024


3408 Comments


It good. I wish liked black metal vocals at all, but these are more tolerable than most.

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
October 27th 2024


5669 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

hell yeah!! happy autumn gang

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
October 28th 2024


6186 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This rules! Nice one Jesper, this band feels like a surprising outlier in the Jespercore canon.

Piripichotes
November 2nd 2024


852 Comments


Been meaning to give this a listen for a while now, and finally did today. Thank you JesperL for bringing this to my attention. I have only given it one spin, but I definitely liked it, it kept me engaged for the whole duration, there's little filler stuff here, maybe just some seconds here and there but that's about it.
It's surprising that people are rating it so low tho. Solid stuff, your rating might be spot on.

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
November 7th 2024


5669 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

hell yeah sunny and piripi! glad you guys are digging this, it really is perfect for the season



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