Metaltalk.net review of recent Sugar Horse show

"This opening set was one of light through maelstroms of shade over a vast landscape scoured by Channelled Scablands-era natural processes.

It embarked in calm waters until the first gigantic riff of Slam Dancing In A Burning Building arrived and transported those present, united in assent, with the ponderous inevitability of a colossal waterfall.

Passages of ethereal melody and swirling colour emerged throughout. Open, potent vocals and clean riffs spread wings over eddies of giddying expanse, to be engulfed again by behemothic thunderheads and gathering tumults carrying all in their path and laying mountains in accretion.

A stentorian storm of abrading vocals tore through these new landforms with flesh-shredding elemental force, ejecting eccentric life forms and the remains of long-forgotten rituals interspersed with artefacts of the Anthropocene. Night terror Sleep Paralysis Demon lay at the centre of all of this like a basilisk in its lair, exuding a rasping malevolence.

In closing, the nearly 18min Truth or Consequences, New Mexico began like a powerfully resonant call from the throat of prehistory, trailing millennia of arcana.

Its paradoxes, contrasts and weightiness gathered around the audience in a hypnotically satisfying landslide, a re-settling of disordered matter, fossilising us in a stratified monolith until we were blasted out of it by what then ensued."