Dutch Doom Band Izah Unveils A Lush Bleak Debut Lp Nine Years In The Making

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• At least the folks in Izah aren’t trying to get anywhere on their looks.

It’s always a pleasure when a band appears out of nowhere with a fully formed, mature-sounding record. Now of course Tilburg, Holland, isn’t nowhere—that’s the city that doom six-piece Izah calls home—but Sistere, which comes out next week on Swedish label Nordvis, is the group’s debut full-length.