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After four years of silence, instrumental metal standard bearers Pelican have comethundering back, with Forever Becoming,an eight-song album destined to be considered one of the most punishinglyrewarding albums of the year.
Before their hiatus, the group had laid a sizeable chunk of the groundwork for theinstrumental metal scene that’s come into its own in the 13 years since theystarted playing together. After 2009 the band found itself slightly adrift, andfound the day to day struggle of being full-time underground musicians colliding with new families and non-musical careers. Wisely, they didn’t makeany rash decisions, and as suits a band known for making dense, meditative sounds they simply patiently figured out how to move past their obstacles.
This reborn Pelican is purer, more focused, and far more assured. Recorded atElectrical Audio in Chicago with engineer Chris Common, and featuring The SwanKing guitarist Dallas Thomas (replacing the amicably departed LaurentSchroeder-Lebec) Forever Becoming isan immense, speaker-rattling meditation on the infinite cycle of death andlife. It takes a lot of experience and a lot of confidence to attempt a head-on ascent of the biggest, most monolithic theme inart, but Forever Becoming is proofthat Pelican has plenty of both, and knows how to wield them.