Doing my home state proud since 2008, Virginia grungy doom quartet Windhand have just released their fourth full-length, Eternal Return (Relapse), which follows their breakout album, 2015’s Grief’s Infernal Flower. It’s their first without founding guitarist Asechiah Bogdan (also of Alabama Thunderpussy), but the band’s no-frills wall of noise fills in the void just fine, because the focal point here is singer Dorthia Cottrell, who’s been electrifying since the start—even while the band was still lurching into focus on its earliest releases.…
Doing my home state proud since 2008, Virginia grungy doom quartet Windhand have just released their fourth full-length, Eternal Return (Relapse), which follows their breakout album, 2015’s Grief’s Infernal Flower. It’s their first without founding guitarist Asechiah Bogdan (also of Alabama Thunderpussy), but the band’s no-frills wall of noise fills in the void just fine, because the focal point here is singer Dorthia Cottrell, who’s been electrifying since the start—even while the band was still lurching into focus on its earliest releases.…