Wesley Eisold’s creative momentum refuses to stall, as he’s once again reshaping the contours of hardcore with a new project, Statue of Heaven. It arrives with a stark, stripped-down intensity, echoing the urgency of American Nightmare and Some Girls, but with a more skeletal frame.
The debut album, Hung From Rope Woven By Hope, released via Heartworm, delivers seven tracks of raw, blackened hardcore. It’s a lean and deliberate record, pairing minimal, evocative lyrics with sonic textures drawn from eighties punk abrasion and mid-nineties metallic grit. Beneath the surface, it wrestles with themes of sanctity and purity, set against a bleak, morally vacant present.
Though brief, the album definitively lingers. Still very new, it asks for time and space to settle. From the first listens, it feels urgent, vibrant, and as poetic as anything you’d expect from Wes.
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