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The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer

Red Sparowes · 2010

43 min · 8 tracks · post-metal

A sprawling soundscape where heavy, layered guitars intertwine with haunting melodies to evoke deep emotional landscapes.

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Is this for you?

Good fit if you like

  • dynamic emotional journeys
  • long immersive listening sessions
  • layered dense sonic textures
  • gradual builds and payoffs

Where this album fits

Career context
Released in 2010, 'The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer' is Red Sparowes' third studio album, following their 2008 release 'At the Soundless Dawn'. By this time, the band had solidified their identity within the post-metal genre, continuing to refine their atmospheric instrumentation and emotional storytelling through music.
Stylistic neighbors
Infant Island· Junius· Deafheaven

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

  • 1 Truths Arise 1:49
  • 2 In Illusions of Order 7:36
  • 3 A Hail of Bombs 4:21
  • 4 Giving Birth to Imagined Saviors 6:08
  • 5 A Swarm 7:10
  • 6 In Every Mind 3:06
  • 7 A Mutiny 5:31
  • 8 As Each End Looms and Subsides 7:16

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