Track Listing

1. In Arctic Exile (10:14)
2. F Subzero (9:30)
3. Sleeping Beast (5:53)
4. Origins (12:14)
5. Collapse of the Tower (5:14)

Total Play Time: 43:05

Reviews

"Saros, featuring the (amazing, need we say?) drummer from the legendary Weakling, is one of San Francisco's up and coming heavy metal outfits, playing a blend of thrash, black and speed metal that takes no prisoners live (and now, on record). Saros are all about old school rippage mixed with weird black metal epic experimentation... On their debut full-length Five Pointed Tongue you get a fierce lesson in modern metal melding, the band both galloping and trudging (depending) through five fairly long tracks (43 minutes total) that mix up blackened rasps, clean vocal melodies, some acoustic guitar, prog-rock song structures, widdly solos, and plenty of traditional Bay Area 'banging. No matter the twists and turns, in one of Saros' songs you're never far from a blast of icy riffage. And quite a beating when it comes to the drums! Requisite obscure metal nerd reference: I wonder if these guys are at all familiar with French Canadian tech metallers Obliveon? I think they'd like them." - Aquarius Records, SF

"They have concocted one hell of a sound that pulls influences from various forms of metal; thrash, black, older death metal. Even some progressive rock moments come into play in certain sections. The band have obviously put in the time on their respective instruments before crafting this wonderfully epic 5 song album because these guys fucking shred."- siczine.com

Saros' Five Pointed Tongue is a five-song crusher of tight, jaw-busting metal. There are dark, witchy acoustic-guitar breakdowns, shredding speed riffs, jittery dissonance, but mostly it's just heavy, flawless brutality.- The Portland Mercury