Calligram "Position | Momentum" CD

Joy can be found in the most unlikely of places. A listen through the latest offering from London-based five piece Calligram may not immediately conjure up feelings of immediate joy, but rest assured - between the blistering howls and blackened riffs, there is much to celebrate.

The multi-national quintet decamped to The Parlour Studios in Kettering to record Position | Momentum with Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Memoriam, At The Gates) during the summer of 2022. The follow up to 2020™s The Eye Is The First Circle doesn™t ease up on intensity; if anything, giving the chaos a little more room to breathe has shaped Calligram into something even more formidable than before.

Sonically they have further refined their amalgamation of bilious D-beat punk and ice cold black metal. The results are as abrasive as one would hope, but ceding space to atmospheric passages helps create a claustrophobic, ominous ambience to proceedings; allowing some light in only serves to accentuate the darkness further.