Willowtip Records released our long-awaited 3rd record this past Friday. The 3 of us NEVER expected such a good reception. Personally, I love the record, but I’m subjective and thus my opinion matters not. Since the release, we’ve had thousands of streams on Bandcamp and Spotify and some pretty nice words typed about us assembled together by the peerless Clawhammer PR.
One of the most humorous pieces of press we received, was a shoutout from Knotfset. For those unaware, it’s Slipknot’s annual gathering of fans festival. Hell yes, we will show up and steal all your fans, Slipknot.
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“Seven Nines and Tens nails the perfect balance of riffs and atmosphere, of grit and serenity.”
– Toilet ov Hell
“Absolutely brilliant. You can listen to the album in the background and it still sounds great, but when you immerse yourself in it with headphones in a dark room, it’s the perfect thing.” (4.5/5)
– Metal Epidemic
“As challenging as it is, the overall appeal of such weirdness is what makes this a standout release of 2022. Even at this early stage, Seven Nine and Tends have set the bar very high.” (9/10)
– Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life
“It’s post-metal in the sense that Seven Nines and Tens deliberately escape classification. When they do lean into muscularity, their riffs harken mathy noise rock.”
– Invisible Oranges
“As complex, multi-faceted and heavy as it is melodic, focused and accessible.” The elements that contribute to that overall sound include pretty much any genre you can throw a post in front of. Thus post-hardcore, post-metal, and post-rock. Add in some jazz, some psych and some math, and you’re good to go. A pleasantly progressive melange of all these.”
– The Progressive Aspect
“A monument of creativity and technicality.”
– Rock’n Force
“Parts shoegaze, parts progressive metal, with nods to quite a varied bunch of influences ranging from Jesu to Intronaut, to Cave In, and Alcest. A gigantic and bass heavy sound, with at times thundering drums and guitars, but the beautifully layered clean vocal choirs take the aggressive edge off it.”
– Weirdo Shrine
“Seven Nines and Tens‘ best outing to date.”
– Angry Metal Guy
“Especially noteworthy are the harmonized vocals. They are pensive and emotive. The rugged instrumental work is also a key feature. A unique and charming offering within the annals of the overarching Rock genre.”
– Metal-Temple
“The kind of thing capable of elevating your heart into your throat.”
– No Clean Singing
“Powerful. A continuous transition of situations and personal instances of the band, where every time they feel that things are getting denser, they lower the resolutions and put clean effects or they decide to stop the musical density to give shine to more guitars, acoustics.”
– Metallerium
“Do not sleep on this one. Wow.” – Metalinjection.net
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