DESCRIPTION:
Campbell Kneale side project he made with his friend James kirk came out in 2008 on 20 Buck Spin records.

Black Boned angel is an exercise in dark ambient / diet drone metal. Plenty of sustained tones, repetitive guitar riffs, simple drums, subtle sounds, light distortions.

The album starts off with a resonating thump that is followed by silence. Some faint guitar chord is heard around the 20 minute mark and the album just slowly builds up until an actual metal riff is heard at the half hour mark. Every now and then a sustained piano key is used, someone shakes a maraca, yadda yadda yadda.

I've heard this type of thing done better before by groups like Slomo, Lotus Eaters, even Nadja. Not that this was a bad listen, but I've heard it done better.

This album will test your patience and your attention span. The patient listener looking for some drone to space out to will find plenty of subtleties and ambiance to be absorbed here, but the more casual listener will get bored.

This album lacks the menace and climax a good drone metal album would have. Nothing too ominous or scary. Just some sparse sounds, some furnace room banging and then a repeating metal riff that goes for 20 minutes and then fades into a sustained piano key tone.

Fans of Lustmord, Sunn 0))), or Slomo may find this interesting. Other people will just fall asleep.

2.5/5