This review is going to primarily only cover two songs on the album, this is because track two “Boiling” is a drone track, the equivalent of a filler, and track four is a cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Quiet”. What Primitive Man do is a bit one-dimensional but they are one of the only, if not the only, bands that play this unique brand of primeval doom metal, and for that, they will always be considered a groundbreaking act in the genre. I have to say this criticism isn’t a big one. Listening to the album on Spotify, even with the ending song of the album being a cover, I often struggled to figure out if it had gone onto a new album or not, and that to me is not a good thing. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it makes it harder to write an in-depth commentary on songs that tend to blend into each other. As someone who has listened to a lot of doom, I am not one to balk at repetitive songs as that is the nature of most doom, but I think the problem with Insurmountable for me is it sounds like all of their prior albums. Although I have heaped praise on this album thus far, I must admit it took me a while to start writing this review because, although I enjoy listening to the music, I find it to get a bit samey, especially after many listens. There are some faster sections that end up sounding like raw death metal, which is a good contrast to the grave-like quality of the rest of the album, but the sections are few and far between. The music physically hits me in my stomach, almost present in the air. I do love this style of doom immensely the heaviness that can be imbued into slower music is somehow so much more effective to me than high-tempo technical music (although it has its own special place in my heart).
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