★★★★★
The long-form, one-track EP always seemed like a requisite step for Richmond, Virginia's Inter Arma. Nominally a metal act, they've anchored both of their full-length albums to itinerant bristling guitars and doubled-down drums, with sections that plunged alternately into doom's lurch and death's leaps...
- pitchfork.com
2014-10-24
★★★★★
The release week of October 14, 2014, for metal albums has a consistent theme. It is the week of the long song. Pig Destroyer widely released their Mass and Volume EP, which features a 19-minute song. The Acacia Strain released Coma Witch which boasts a track that runs almost a half hour. However, Inter Arma has both of these groups beat with The Cavern EP. It just features one song, one very long song that runs 45 minutes and 46 seconds...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-10-25
★★★★★
Artist: Inter Arma Album: The Cavern EP Genre: Sludge Metal/Post Metal Year: 2014 Label: Relapse Records Inter Arma is a band I knew nothing about last week, but fast forward a couple days and I've heard the band's latest EP, The Cavern , about half a dozen times now. The band's sludgy post metal sound is one I enjoyed right from the get-go, and with each new listen I found something new to appreciate on the EP...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Since 2006, Richmond, VA wrecking crew Inter Arma have been keeping audiences on their toes with a hydra-headed hybrid of extreme metal that draws on doom, psych, mathcore and hardcore. But with their new EP, , they've taken their metal melting pot and poured the contents into one album's worth of awesome...
- exclaim.ca
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Dusted ReviewsArtist: Inter Arma Album: Sky Burial Label: Relapse Review date: Apr. 18, 2013
Sometimes what makes a band is the way it assembles and develops on its influences. Richmond's Inter Arma play doom, but not straight up and not simply. And while that's become an increasingly crowded sub-section of metal these last few years, the five-piece give it some real distinctiveness by combining it with black metal abjection (and rhythmic languages), the occasional crust...
- www.dustedmagazine.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
With a heaviness that leans more on melancholy than malice, Inter Arma deliver a genre-spanning metal experience with Sky Burial. Where most metal can easily fall under the "apocalyptic" description, the album here has a kind of lonely openness about it that feels more like the soundtrack to the cataclysmic aftermath than the event itself...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-05-02
★★★★★
Inter Arma Sky BurialBy Natalie Zina WalschotsThe moniker Inter Arma roughly translates to "war time" and is a part of the larger phrase inter arma enim silent leges, or "in times of war, the law falls silent." Inter Arma make a concerted effort to challenge the unpredictable, easily corruptible periods of unchecked power that can result from martial law on their second full-length release, Sky Burial (the album title itself referring to the funereal practice of ritually feeding a body to...
- exclaim.ca
2013-04-25
★★★★★
"'Sky Burial' is one of the more accomplished releases so far in 2013, a simmering feast of the best that metal has to offer." Bastard Sapling's last album, "Dragged From Our Restless Trance," saw placement on this writer's year-end list in 2012. It so happens that the vocalist and two guitarists from that band also make their residency with Inter Arma, who put on an eccentric display with their second album "Sky Burial...
- www.metalunderground.com
2013-04-27
★★★★★
Sometimes what makes a band is the way it assembles and develops on its influences. Richmond's Inter Arma play doom, but not straight up and not simply. And while that's become an increasingly crowded sub-section of metal these last few years, the five-piece give it some real distinctiveness by combining it with black metal abjection (and rhythmic languages), the occasional crust flourish, and a liberal injection of Southern rock grooves and leads...
- dustedmagazine.com
2013-04-20