Review from Kaje Music

May 11, 2018
From: Kaje Music
Published: May 10, 2018 

Even on a hot spring day the second full length Life Has Gone On Long Enough from Portland’s NONE can make you feel cold. Fuzzy distortion and depressive vocals lure you into the bleak world of misery and grief and swallow you. You can feel yourself being sucked into a desolate wasteland and caressed by a shroud of doom. The slow and steady march into the darkness of your own thoughts ushered by the anguished screams that surround you force you into a private contemplation.

With no online presence, and no known members, NONE is a great project, one that creates truly depressive music that reflects how one is unknown, and alone in a haunting world of suffering. Started in 2015, this enigmatic artist(s?) has released two full lengths quietly to the world.

Written and recorded throughout the latter half of 2017, NONE‘s new album Life Has Gone On Long Enough takes its haunting shape through eight organic tracks of foggy mountainous atmosphere and bleak music. On this new chapter, the follow up to the debut self-titled album released in 2017, NONE delves deeper into the blackest woods to find abandonment and developing its tortured personality further. Moving in and out like the long shadows of an ancient forest, the harsh musical passages of Life Has Gone On Long Enough intertwine and die through forlorn atmospheres, devouring and nourishing a hopeless life.

 

Review from Merchants of Air

May 1, 2018
From: Merchants of Air
Published: April 30, 2018 

Life has gone on long enough is the most recent album by Cascadian black metal project None. An extensive record, fifty two minutes and a half long, it has eight tracks: Bleak, damp, and dead, A world, dead and gray, Bed the cold earth, Hypoxic, Corroded, Desiderate, Life is long enough and Illa Tiðandi. A more conventional atmospheric black metal record, permeated with the intuitive lucidity of slow harmonies, the album has a stro...

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Review from ItDjents

April 30, 2018
From: ItDjents
Published: April 29, 2018

Oregon based duo NONE return with their sophomore full length record after dropping their fantastic self-titled debut just last year. Once again built around the structural mainframe of atmospheric black metal, NONE experiment with post-rock and doom elements in crafting the sophomore record Life Has Gone On Long Enough.

With the self-titled debut, NONE had already shown the world that they were the masters of crafting long, epic tracks that ...

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Mini review from Unwinnable.com

April 30, 2018
From: Unwinnable.com
Published: April 24, 2018

Portland’s NONE plays viscous, lumbering black metal that sounds resigned. Thick slow-motion bass work underpins rigid drumming, both of them supporting lacy constellations of guitar. This reminds me of Khrom’s 2004 masterpiece A World Through Dead Eyes, or Loss’s Despond; music that is not simply about depression but depressed itself, written with a genuinely weary sensibility. Music that evokes chill November wind across snow-d...

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Review from Valley of Steel

April 17, 2018
From: Valley of Steel 
Published: April 12, 2018 

Yesterday, Hypnotic Dirge released the second album by None. The label describes them as a “two-piece Depressive Black Metal entity from the Pacific Northwest.” Digging a bit further reveals that they are in fact from the northwestern USA (to avoid confusion since the label itself is from Canada). And that is literally all we’ve been able to uncover, as “none” also accurately describes how much of an online presence this b...

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Review from Metal Injection

April 11, 2018
From: Metal Injection
Published: April 10, 2018

Expectations can be a prickly thing. When NONE's Life has gone on long enough was first previewed over at Invisible Oranges, I was genuinely enraptured. Lead single "Bed the cold earth" was a somber, contemplative, and suitably desolate experience. If that were a sign of things to come, NONE's sophomore record could've been a modern black metal gem. The music was appropriately thin and chilling but offered just enough melody and ambia...

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Review from Thonium Magazine

April 11, 2018
From: Thonium Magazine
Published: April 9, 2018

Un an jour pour jour après la sortie de leur album éponyme sur l’étiquette Hypnotic Dirge Records, NONE de Portland en Oregon, nous reviennent avec un titre tout aussi nihiliste qu’atmosphérique; Life Has Gone On Long Enough (LHGOLE). Épousant le genre du Cascadian Black Metal, NONE se veut un groupe qui s’éloigne toutefois du Black Metal quasi primitif de Wolves In The Throne Room et qui se tourne quasiment sur le Post-Ro...

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Review from Wonderbox Metal

April 8, 2018
From: Wonderbox Metal
Published: April 8, 2018 

None are a black metal band from the US and this is their second album.

We met None on last year’s self-titled debut album, and it comes as some surprise to see there’s a new one here already, (scheduled for release on the same day as the first, no less).

The style of Life Has Gone on Long Enough is a cross between the atmospheric and depressive strains of black metal. There’s also a doom influence at play in the music too. It’s...

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 Released: April 11, 2018
300 Copies
Genre: Depressive Black Metal

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