{"id":548310,"date":"2026-04-24T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:15:09","slug":"album-review-the-prestige-isthmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548310\/","title":{"rendered":"Album review: The Prestige \u2013 Isthmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Following up from last year\u2019s phenomenal Amer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/artists\/the-prestige\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Prestige<\/a> clearly only have one intention: to better and batter it. With Isthmos, both aims have been resoundingly achieved. A post-hardcore band at heart, this album is an excursion into sludgy heaviness and post-metal atmosphere that somehow never becomes too much, even as it sits with all the weight of the world on its shoulders.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As delicately as intro Le\u0301the\u0301 enters, first track proper Debris acts as the wrecking ball to any sense of calm or tranquillity. Enacting a vivid metaphor for the depression and inner turmoil that fuel the album, this destruction of peace serves to compound the darkness of what comes next.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Seething riffs struggle within vulnerable lyrics and urgent cries for help as Debris morphs into Father of None, where the darkness closes in to feel almost claustrophobic. Rose du d\u00e9sert clears the smoke to let in some air, with a majestic solo towards the end of its seven minutes that somehow only leads to more heaviness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following up from last year\u2019s phenomenal Amer, The Prestige clearly only have one intention: to better and batter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}