P+A+G+E+S – No More Can Be Done

 

 

P+A+G+E+S – No More Can Be Done
Self-released – 2025
Metal, Drone, Sludge, Doom
Rated: ***

From the unfathomable depths of Cape Town’s underground, P+A+G+E+S emerges not as a new band, but as an entity transfigured by the dark, formed by the shadows and modeled after the murk. Formerly known as the more light exhuming Morning Pages, the trio spent half a decade carving out their sound before shedding it like a skin that no longer fits. Replacing it withs something colder, heavier and sharpened by determination. No More Can Be Done, is the debut full-length, and it feels less like a collection of songs and more like a ritual. An invocation of bleakness, suffocation and resistance. 

The album starts with fifteen minute long The Passage, a descent that drags the listener down by the ankles. This is the kind of music that does not explode but corrodes. Built on layers of crushing sludge and suffocating drone, the track sets the tone for a record that unfolds like a monument that goes into ruin in slow-motion. Every note seems to have been placed like a trap, with malign precision. And where chaos looms in its shadows, P+A+G+E+S seem calculated in their devastation. It is the hour of devastation, the atmosphere is thick, airless and nothing escapes. 

And that permeates the entire four tracks that follow, crawling or marching slow, feeling those guitars grind like rusted machinery. Drums like echoes of distant war drums. The sound weaponized and deadly. Lyrics with only a small glimmer of grim hope. No optimism can be found on No More Can Be Done, no hope, just survival. And you whisper this as you watch the walls extend outwards, and an all-consuming surge of heat blow back. And that’s what’s left when you touch everything No More Can Be Done leaves behind, ash, broken concrete and brittle bone. This is music for when the world turns to rot, when the sky goes black and there’s nothing left to do but stare into the dark. And as you see all that is black come alive and start to move, you choose to hold your ground. Knowing, No More Can Be Done… 

(Written by JK)

The albums comes out on October 25th! But the first single Shine On can be heard right now... 



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