#allelic

ALLELIC | À CONTRE VENT (full album)

Friday with the Principal Investigator... been diggin this muchly

Review Summary: The best metal (and folk) album of the year.

Allelic – a term referring to gene variants within the same chromosome that are responsible for different traits – could not be a more appropriate name for this Montreal-based solo project. Referred to only as the “Principal Investigator” on the artist’s official bandcamp website, the man effortlessly produces some of the most harrowing, hellish black metal you’ll hear only to turn around minutes later espousing lush, flourishing indie-folk from the Garden of Eden. It’s impressive to witness two opposite worlds of music overlap in such stunning harmony; a seamless welding. The Smoke of Atavistic Fires is the full-length debut album of this project, and it is the already the best metal (and folk) album of the year.