Identity can be everything for a band. Some bands play great, but sound like every other band in that category. I love Undeath for example, but if you were to put them in a playlist with five other bands playing the same thing, I don’t know that I could easily tell the difference. Then there are bands like Cannibal Corpse, sitting firmly in the same genre but immediately identifiable – no one really sounds like Cannibal, you know? But then you have an entity like Five The Hierophant, a group out of the UK who don’t really sound like anyone else. Sitting in the pocket of instrumental, avant-garde post, well…everything they’re the sound of an undulating apocalypse, and third full-length Apeiron (Greek for unlimited or boundless) has seeped into me at a cellular level, pressing my consciousness into the mossy earth as a dark storm gathers in the distant mountains. Sometimes hokey imagery is all you have when that sax blows its mournful wail…

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