Review
Convul
سأكون رؤيتكم (I'll Be Seeing You)

The band formerly known as Convulsions decided to set their sights pretty high apparently before writing their most recent record. Beyond shortening their name and deciding to use Arabic for their album title They may have looked towards their own outer limits. The band seemed to resind their previous influences and gestures for a more thought out but certainly different field altogether. Where in the past they seemed to play within the noisey if not slightly grind fueled area that bands such as Daughters occupied they have seemed to look more towards the doom genre as a higher grade of influence for this record.

Starting with a heavy mammoth guitar line that leads the way through the entire song before finally breaking down into a noise drenched finish to lead into the second track. Their post hardcore style noise mongering makes a return of sorts in the song "Mn#EL" allowing for both brooding vocal lines and snaking guitar leads to permeate different points of the song creating a different but somehow calming atmosphere when compared to the disruptively heavy opener. By minute 4 everything has dropped out of the song allowing for a calm depressive piano line to lead towards a climax in which the band comes screaming back in as they make room for a doomy guitar and bass piece to permeate before dropping to feedback. 

All of this leads into the records centerpiece. The Monolith as it could be called is spread across both tracks 3 and 4 allowing for maximum ferocity and permeation of the themes consistent in each. The lurching doomy guitar figure resides on both while the vocals carry only on the first half. This in turn allows the band to play with the vocals choosing to use an interplay between the normal desperate howl and a strange, detached and almost melodic spoken line to float above it. The second, and longer of the 2 parts, makes the most of the forward thrust created in the first by riding it out into infinity before bursting into an effects laden solo.

The last 2 songs make up nearly 14 minutes while still managing to contain both the shortest and longest song on the record by far. This manages to show a glimpse into both extremes of the band without any compromise on either end. The short, noise fueled rager "From My Sight" makes the most of it's brief running time by going through a few different parts making the song both short on time and full on actual promise. On the other hand the final song "Harp" plays with spacey, melodic vocals and calm, plaintive clean guitars before being shot to hell by a burst of distortion and bass. This whole song relies on the build and makes the absolute most of it's stretched out atmosphere and structure. Allowing for the band to play within their spaced out little playground they've built for themselves.

Convul managed to take more than a few chances on this record. Between changing names, labels, even languages (sort of) and most importantly overall sound the band manages to find their way and then some. The band has managed to crawl into their own, no longer relying on their past efforts and instead reaching for the stars. What they come back with is a record that feels spacey while remaining both heavy and desperate still. This is a record by a band making their own little path down a street already walked but managing to do it with their own bit of style.