{"id":69710,"date":"2026-08-01T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/review-castiel-all-returns-to-hollow-and-silence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:45:50","slug":"review-castiel-all-returns-to-hollow-and-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/review-castiel-all-returns-to-hollow-and-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW &#8211; Castiel &#8211; All Returns to Hollow and Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleFull\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Austrian deathcorers <strong>Castiel<\/strong> released <em>All Returns to Hollow and Silence<\/em> on July 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The four-act EP combines guttural growls with technical heavy instrumentation and some slick guitar lines dotted throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The drum fills on <em>Act I Defile\/\/Denounce<\/em> are sick and constant. I love the synths too, they add a haunting and overlay to a low track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I like the bass in <em>Act III Vile Spirits.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I have to admit it was quite a bland record for me. It\u2019s good, don\u2019t get me wrong, but it just felt more like one massive song rather than four tracks, with not enough to keep me hooked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There are some good guitar lines throughout, and I love the drum fills but I need a bit more variety when it comes to heavier records.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\/*(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.11\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); *\/<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/altcorner.com\/reviews\/review-castiel-all-returns-to-hollow-and-silence\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian deathcorers Castiel released All Returns to Hollow and Silence on July 24. The four-act EP combines guttural growls with technical heavy instrumentation and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":69711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}