Callisto
Providence

THE REVIEW

From the Finnish lands come Callisto.

Land of forests, lakes, snow, and ice. A silent nature, honored in the cover image with those flames rising from an untouched forest below.

"Providence" is the third album by the band, released in 2009.

Very close to the musical grounds of bands like Isis, Pelican, Cult Of Luna.

Ten tracks for almost seventy minutes of music.

An endless emotional flow; there's no space, there's no time. Everything expands, everything flows ("Panta Rei" as Heraclitus of Ephesus said).

Post Metal - Sludge; with instrumental parts that extend throughout most of the songs; building the scaffolding of an album among the best of an entire genre.

Expanding, slow, enveloping sound structures; in a warm and lively embrace. Sparingly used notes of keyboards and horns.

Hypnotic and furious in equal measure; with a singing style now light, nuanced that reminds me of a certain Mike Patton. Then suddenly, the stunning semi-growl lashes from the guitarist enter the execution context and clear the field; and here the point of reference again directs towards the unmatched Isis and their singer Aaron Turner. It's necessary to point out the listening of "Covenant Colours" to give truth to what I have just written.

But it is the title track, placed at the end of the long and fascinating atmospheric journey, that stands as the undisputed peak of the work. Seven and more minutes that perfectly illustrate Callisto's ability to overturn the course of each individual passage, to transform, to change skin in a disarming manner; a progressive and psychedelic increase, with slowed parts of devastating heaviness, up to the final act where the martial sound of the drums slowly gives way to total catharsis, among abrasive guitars and an offensive and erratic singing style.

Elegaic and unsettling.

A masterpiece...DEAD WEIGHT...

Ad Maiora.