LUNA’S CALL
Void
SELF-RELEASED
An audacious new benchmark for UK
prog
death
They may have evolved in relative obscurity, but Luna’s Call are surely destined for greatness. Their second album is enthralling from start to finish, as the Lincolnshire quartet harness the amorphous death metal sweep of early Opeth for their own, equally adventurous ends. You can hear the influence of more overly modern prog metal lurking in lengthy epics like Fly Further Cosmonaut and Signs, but there’s an equal amount of old-school prog here too, with Enceladus & The Life Inside, in particular, nodding joyfully to classic 70s Genesis. Above all, LC are master songwriters and arrangers, and everything from the head-spinning intro Merced’s Footsteps to the multi-genre sprawl of Solar Immolation oozes confidence and class. This is boss-level progressive death metal and essential listening for anyone with a taste for audacious, virtuoso heaviness.