There must be something to the heat in Savannah, GA, or maybe it’s the red clay, but exactly how this picturesque little town down South has become the epicenter of the crust-metal movement is anyone’s guess. Regardless of how it’s happened, the town is currently a wellspring of activity/creativity, counting Kylesa, Black Tusk and of course, Baroness and Unpersons, among its ranks.

A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk shows two different sides of the city’s fertile scene; one is a gargantuan, riff-dragging monster of utterly epic proportion, the other, a snarling, scaly beast that runs around scaring children and throwing feces and distortion pedals at people. The former, Baroness, led by well-renown artist John Dyer Baizley, unleash two titanic compositions – “Teiresias” and “Cavite” – that bridge the gap between the blazing melodicism of the NWOBHM and the lugubrious, technical metalcore of contemporaries like Mastodon and Neurosis. Unpersons, which features members of Kylesa, are an entirely different proposition, unfurling a handful of AmRep-inspired rippers that shed their skin at the drop of a hat and peel the paint off the walls with wave after wave of seething distortion.

Like any good split, A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk, presents two different sides of the same coin, not only giving listeners a window into Savannah’s vibrant scene, but a taste of two of its most disparate, if indelibly linked, bands. – Jason Jackowiak (2007, The Daily Copper)