ERIK HINDS
August 27th, 2005ERIK HINDS (who is way more Metal than you). Here’s, uh, me on Herr Hinds’ Regin In Blood (courtesy of Dusted Magazine): In Hinds’ hands, the H’arpeggione drones, clicks, clacks, soars, sinks, gurgles and wakes through an odd amalgam of technique. Hinds, who has described his style as “Appalachian trance metal,” empowers his adjectives with Reign In Blood, cutting Bluegrass down to the quick and breathing circular patterns from the nuts and bolts of Hanneman and King’s harmonies, looking back to Evan Parker’s Monocerous and forward to the painfully drowsy permutations of Autechre.