Review
Subrosa
More Constant Than the Gods

Profound Lore (2013) Jon E.

Subrosa – More Constant Than the Gods cover artwork
Subrosa – More Constant Than the Gods — Profound Lore, 2013

Subrosa have managed to get lumped into the doom genre. While that genre tag isn't completely inaccurate it certainly fails to tell the full story of the band. The band certainly has doom elements at times heavy guitars and lengthy song structures may stick out the band refuses to stick to convention and allowing for a style that is more reminiscent of My Dying Bride.

The first thing that allows such a lofty comparison is certainly the most easy and surface one, that would be the violins that are used to bolster their melodies. The melodic vocals and use of alternate vocal styles also allow for this comparison. Where Subrosa tread differently is in their heaviness when the guitars break out it is more forceful and direct. The guitars remain sludgy and heavy when present but this seems to give the violins more force than usual allowing them to bring both melodic and discordance.

The band show off many iterations of their style but the style is undoubtedly their own. While riffs may be cribbed from their forebearers the band add a few elements that not only make them stick out from any influence but far beyond most of their possible peers.

9.4 / 10Jon E. • October 6, 2014

Subrosa – More Constant Than the Gods cover artwork
Subrosa – More Constant Than the Gods — Profound Lore, 2013

Related features

SubRosa

One Question Interviews • May 21, 2015

Related news

Subrosa robbed in Sacramento

Posted in Bands on November 5, 2013

Recently-posted album reviews

Personality Cult

Dilated
Dirtnap (2025)

I had a hard time starting this review. I can’t help coming back to the fact that it sounds like Marked Men. It does, maybe intentionally so, as Dilated is the second of Personality Cult’s albums that is produced by Jeff Burke of Marked Men and Radioactivity. But I don’t necessarily like to say a band sounds like another band … Read more

Various Artists

Her Head's On Fire/Arms Like Roses - Split
Double Helix (2025)

Her Head’s On Fire (NY, NY) and Arms Like Roses (New Haven, CT) team up on this split 7” with two new tracks (one each band) of post-hardcore tunes that are both massive and melodic in their own distinct ways. "Universal" is the track from Her Head’s On Fire. Recorded by the band’s guitarist Jeff Dean, "Universal" came from the … Read more

Dead Bars

All Dead Bars Go To Heaven
Iodine (2025)

Dead Bars has a unique talent of taking the everyday, the experiences you see and live all the time, and shining a new light on them to make them personal and interesting. I've written about it before, yet it's my job to say this again and to make it interesting. It's what Dead Bars does, so it only seems fitting … Read more