Style: Jazz influenced black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: black metal with a saxophone
Thoughts: I love black metal, I love jazz, why wouldn't I love a combination of both?
White Ward has introduced both jazz song structures along with extensive use of a saxophone to their core black metal sound on Futility Report. This was an instant hit with me. Just adding the sax would have been enough but the fact that they have extended periods where only the drums bass and sax essentially play jazz is what puts this album over the top for me.
The black metal when present is also well executed, in fact sometimes it's even heavy. There aren't many sections of the album where the jazz and metal overlap, it's one or the other most of the time. Where it does overlap though make for some of the coolest moments on the album. A sax solo over blast beats is always a welcome thing in my book.
Metal is such a diverse genre. You can fuse it with just about anything and it will still sound good in the right hands. White Ward is really on to something with this sound, and they would only develop it further on the forthcoming albums.
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