Glow's last album Gone, but Never Forgotten... was a solid slab of bluesy, soulful doom metal steeped in the heavy swaggering riffage of classic

Maryland doomsters like Internal Void and The Obsessed, but their latest full length Dive Into The Sun is even better, showing a big improvement

across the board with burlier production values, some really fantastic riffs, and a killer performance from singer Ralph. Released on the same label that put

out recent heavyweights from Orthodox and Warchetype, Glow are still drawing from the classic doom sounds of Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, and Pentagram, with

plenty of great psychedelic touches like the Hammond organ that shows up all over Dive, and the spacey, subdued breaks and blazing, soaring spaceout

guitar solos that appear between the bouts of megalithic blues-based riffage. And check out the killer latin-tinged psych-funk break at the tail end of

"Doomdriver". When they really slow it down, as they do pretty often here, Glow take on a sour sludge tone that sounds massive; coupled with Ralph's

soulful vocals, Glow occasionally sound sorta like Goatsnake with a rougher-sounding Chris Cornell (circa Louder Than Love) singing. Trad doom heads

and heavy stoner freaks are gonna love this album's distinctive conglom of psychedelic heavy 70's rock and total post-Hellhound blues doom vibes.

Recommended if yer at all into the sounds of Vitus, Internal Void, Hidden Hand, Obsessed, Goatsnake, Spritu, etc. Awesome layout on this, too, a huge step up

from the previous album's sorta generic photo imagery...Dive is accompanied by some terrific high contrast psychdoom imagery with lotsa skulls,

wings, actual winged skulls, n' lysergic suns glowing over a stark landscape right out of a Bakshi still.