PIJN

Post-metal heirs apparent fuse gravity and grace

REMFRY DEDMAN

SIGNATURE BREW, LONDON DESPITE HAVING JUST one full-length album to their name, Manchester collective Pijn (pronounced ‘pine’) are already spoken of in hushed tones in post-metal circles. Their grandiose elegies to loss provide comfort to those familiar with the seven stages of grief, and musically, they encompass an immense spectrum, swinging evocatively between the droning calm of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the viscous heaviness of Isis at their most enflamed. Few bands would be able to open their set with an 18-minute song from their debut album and keep an audience in awestruck rapture, but after a brief drone intro, that’s precisely what Pijn do. The power with which Unspoken builds and eventually hits like a 10-ton hammer to the solar plexus is truly something to behold. Broad daylight may not…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2021

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