Album Review: QOYA - Yōkai (2021)
Picture Credit: Karmazid QOYA - Yōkai Release Date: October 15, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Cassette / Digital Length: 38:45 Genre: Post Metal / Post Punk Origin: Grenoble , France In 2019, QOYA from the French Alps released their first EP " The Fall ". After this debut work the band shrank from a quartet to a trio since their bass player left the band. So, drummer Amar Ruiz also began to implement synthesizers to the sound of QOYA and thus, the search for a new bassist became obsolete. Like Amar Ruiz , Quentin Chazer (guitar and vocals), and Antoine Roux (guitar) are original members of the band that has now released their first longplayer "Yōkai". Yōkai by QOYA QOYA go into the fields of Post-genres. The sound they present on "Yōkai" contains massive and doomy arrangements of Post Metal and Post Rock. Guitar leads as delicate and cold as fresh snow encounter intense walls of riffs that resemble giant blizzards. Between those soundscapes o...