Above all, Seattle doom masters Un are honest. While so many metal acts try their damnedest to prove themselves on the battlefields of Faster, Tougher, and Louder, the four dudes in Un – lead by Samothrace bassist Monte Mccleery – fill their music with mid-paced yearning and thousand-ton sorrow, echoing beneath a blanket of reverb and set to the plodding rhythm of a hangman’s march. The resulting music sounds like a human heart turning to ash and blowing away in a cold breeze.

Which is why Un can get away with naming their new album Sentiment. For certain bands, a record with such a simple, emotional title might smack of a Hallmark card. But for a band whose music is so deeply soaked in the muddy waters of human empathy, the title feels brutally honest. Yes, Sentiment is crushing, driving, and ambitiously psychedelic, but all that is grounded in the sprawling feelings it’s sure to make any living, breathing listener feel – and that’s more jarring and dangerous than any devil or dungeon imaginable.