ENTWIFE ‘Let the Roots Eat’ CD (TT121)
FFO: Seized, Dystopia, Earth

Baltimore's Entwife obtain this year's deeply coveted 4/20 release with their LOTR themed screamy doom-soaked debut. Yes, this was soaked in doom. With members of Eyelet, MИЩa, Homuncumulus, and Vorrh, from the very first moment of bass tone it is very clear what the influences are here and it is also very clear this must a 4/20 release.

'Let the Roots Eat' is a hopeful paean to the collapse of contemporary society.  It is also lamentation directed towards our collective loss: that of the natural world, ecological balance, biodiversity, and the necessary connection between living things.  While it is probable that humanity will continue to cause untold destruction throughout the biosphere, the chances of humanity dying out and leaving a chance for nature to rebuild are far higher than the alternative.  In Middle Earth the Ents are resigned to the slow doom that humanity's rise will pronounce on the planet (their beloved forests a symbol); the Entwives have long disappeared into obscurity, driven away by evil.  One might interpret this as extinction, but we carry hope--the Entwives hide so that they may help the world to blossom after humanity's (or at least its filth and its technology) passing.  

Available on CD /100, 50 with the band and 50 with Tomb Tree.

Happy 4/20 everybody.

Listen here:
https://tombtreetapes.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-roots-eat