It may be a different spelling, but mention Heriot and the first thing that comes to mind is the idyllic rural setting of the Yorkshire Dales and Moors. But as the typeface attests, this Heriot couldn’t be further from the pleasant world of ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, or, indeed, from the wold of the sixteenth-century Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist George Heriot.
This UK doomcore trio, raised on a diet of Black Sabbath and Deftones, know their way around a hefty, trudging riff alright. Opener ‘Myrr’ may only be 2:22 in duration, but it’s a slow, heavy, pulverizing track that sounds like the beginning of the end. The acoustic introduction to ‘Kleptocracy’ provides a brief respite from the crushing, end-of-days onslaught, before the hefty chug and guttural vocal snarl returns and batters on through the bass-led grind of the final track, ‘World Collapse’. Hard, and heavy, it’s a pretty devastating finish to a monster of an EP.
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