Soul Blind - Red Sky Mourning
- Carlo
- Oct 15
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 16
Label: Closed Casket Activities
Release Date: October 10th, 2025
Hudson Valley, NY, Soul Blind is a group I was super hype on when I first heard them back in 2021 via their fantastic Third Chain EP. But when their first proper full-length, Feel It All Around, came out in 2022, it just didn’t connect with me. I haven’t really listened to them much since, but when I saw they had a new record coming out, I added it to my release list to listen to. As soon as I pressed play, I smiled and laughed. Soul Blind’s sophomore LP, Red Sky Mourning, is a certified heavy riffin ass kicker.
The album opener Business or Pleasure immediately sets the ‘90s headbangers tone. A tone that consistently tracks throughout the entirety of the record. Highlights for me include Dyno, Hide Your Evil, and For Real. There are crushing riffs, some solid mosh parts, and spaced-out dreamy sections to get lost in on this album. Soul Blind are at their best blending shoegaze, hardcore, and early '90s style Alice In Chains worship that AIC themselves wish they could pull off as well as they do. The only thing holding this back is a personal thing. I do not (generally) like shoegaze, I often cannot stand it, so the more shoegaze-ish parts just don’t hit me in the right way. It seems the second half of the album leans more into this sound than the first half. But it does not take away at all from the power of this record, and I have to give credit where credit is due. Though New York Smoke, another hard-hitting standout track for me, would’ve been an appropriate closer, I suppose the album experience does call for it to close with the gazey Closer To You. I keep referring to the ‘90s, but if Soul Blind was around back then, can you imagine how many Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtrack hits they would’ve had? An endless amount of hits is the answer.
In all honesty, to say the band grew up between their prior LP and this one wouldn’t be entirely inappropriate. The level of maturity on Red Sky Mourning screams a band that knows who they are, what they do, and how to be the best at doing it.Â
Soul Blind will be on tour throughout November and December supporting Better Lovers. This is a perfect opportunity to go see them live. I believe Red Mourning Sky will be at the top of many album of the year lists.
Score: 8/10