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    Artist: Caldera

    Label: Avantgarde Music

    Caldera is a French four-piece that plays a style of music similar to obscure doom metal albeit with a more emotional sound and organic feel. Caldera’s music could be best described as a combination of a pinch each of traditional doom and stoner metal added to a pot of Pelican-style post-metal. Like that band, Caldera’s work is entirely instrumental, and again like them, it never feels like something is missing due to the absence of vocals. If anything, it gives the music an even more open and flowing feel The production offers a lot of acoustic space for very natural-sounding instruments: lots of clean guitar and bass sections merge with the more bombastic electrified parts to provide a very flowing listening experience. Like most post-metal, the music is structured around peaks and valleys, but unlike a band such as Isis, the climaxes of Caldera’s music don’t necessarily indicate an end or progression: they remain endless processions !
    Caldera’s music is a challenging listen: it demands from the listener and gives you more than most.
    It’s a poetic album, moreso than most in the metal scene today, and it is daringly executed through its directionless meandering of instruments. You could accuse this music of being emotionless, but that’s not what it is; it’s the sound of being stranded in a world that feels no emotion towards you.