Caldera come from the same French hardcore/metal underground that has brought us bands like Year Of No Light, Tantrum, Metronome Charisma, and Gantz, and like all of those bands, Caldera have a knack for epic, majestic riffs and crushing melodic heft served up through dramatic metallized post-hardcore. The music is all instrumental though, and the band creates monumental metallic constructs that have a lot in common with bands like Capricorns, mixing together sludge, post-rock, math rock and some sunbaked guitar playing that sounds influenced by Kyuss. I've seen these cats labeled as "instrumental post doom metal", and while there are some dark vibes at work here and the music is entirely free of vocals, there isn't anything really "doomy" about their music. Caldera are a much more energetic breed of riffmonger, and Mist Through Your Consciousness delivers eight tracks of arboreally-themed jams that wind together those heavy Kyuss-esque hooks, somber indie rock jangle, some jazzy drumming that alternates with more straightforward grooves that crush whenever the drummer really kicks in, and cool, folksy acoustic guitars that weave themselves in with the heavier distorted guitars and the hufe, dubby basslines. The songs, each one named after a different species of tree, are long and winding and often employ the time-tested loud/quiet dynamic, but Caldera have a knack for writing cool songs that, together with the tight as hell, creative musicianship, have plenty of cool hooks that keep this from being another tired metallic post-rock retread; I'm hearing bits of Tool, Agalloch, and Opeth in here alongside Kyuss and Mogwai and Capricorns, a kind of heavy, moody stoner-prog, and fans of stuff like Isis, Zebulon Pike, 5ive, Fucking Champs, Pelican, and Suzukiton would probably enjoy this. Recommended!