Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If you want blood, if you want uncontained rage, and if on top of that you want to see aggression of sound succeed, then in the period of autumn’s splendour shall you discover it; all you have to remember that the emotions uncovered are spectacular, that the beat of the Italian embrace of dark doom and ear-splitting destruction is what’s left when What’s Done Is Done and given the freedom to stomp all over the remains of the naysayers and the terminally dull.
Blood and thunder, a truth that the heart requires when it is faced with elegance in any form, but like many to which it has taken inspiration from, In Autumn add their own constant growl with a sense of ease that belies that the sound that punches out, this is the lion’s roar in the Colosseum, this is attack of claws outstretched and pointed teeth ready to chew through muscle as the gallant and the brave lose their minds at the ferocity of animal, of the king of the plains in full dynamic mood.
For In Autumn, What’s Done Is Done is a release of the aggression made pure, and as tracks such as Despised By Life, Lucid Dream, Breathing In The Void, and The Illusion Of Reality catch the listener by the shoulders, shaking them with insistence and unrelenting passion, and the result is one of the most illuminating pieces of metal to have come from southern Europe for some time; an album on par arguably with many of the Scandinavian releases that mark their territory with guarded firmness and assertion of greatness.
A terrific and thumping release that borders on the soul of epic with a keenness to push the agenda further, deeper, and with that lion’s spirit intact. A classic of the genre that growls and fights with equal tenacity.
In Autumn release What’s Done Is Done on February 16th.
Ian D. Hall