“This is easily going to be one of my favorite instrumental albums of the year.”
— Heavy Debriefings
Wield
Released 2025
01. The Calm
02. Tides
03. Collider
04. Dancing at the End of the World
05. The Crush
06. I've Been Waiting for you All my life
Produced and Mixed by Mario Quintero at Gradwell House in Haddonfield Heights, NJ. Mastered by Magnus Lindberg.
ACCOLADES
"If you’ve ever heard the statement that ‘music has the power to move you’ and never understood it, you will now." — GBHL (10/10)
“I’m honestly enamored with this band” - Ever Metal (9.5/10)
"This emotional maelstrom cuts to the core in the best sense of the word.” — Demonic Nights (9/10)
“Pelagic Records haw released many comparable albums in recent months, but none of them can match the magic of Wield” - Power Metal (8.5/10)
"Sounds like someone trying to perform delicate surgery on a jet engine." — All About The Rock (8/10)
“Hiroe takes listeners on a dense, technical, and emotionally immersive instrumental journey, situated somewhere between post-rock, progressive, and metal.”-Sourcewebzine (8/10)
"One of the undisputed forces of instrumental metal, post-rock, and post-metal." — Metallerium (8/10)
“Just mindblowingly gorgeous.” - wherepostrockdwells
"Truly wonderful.” — Handwritten Mag (4.2/5)
"You should get on this immediately." — Metal Epidemic (4/5)
"Absolutely top notch." — Bereutesproggen (12/15)
"Tear-jerkingly beautiful – yet always urgent, always to the point." — Metal Hammer
“Reminiscent of Deftones’ dreamiest tracks, Caspian’s most colossal, and even the eerie heaviness of Year Of No Light” - Metal Factory
"Compelling post-rock. Hiroe are skilled worldbuilders, and their debut album is a strong one" —Wonderbox Metal
"The melodies are straight-up heart-crushing" - Tuonela Magazine
"Absolutely massive sounding." — Metalsucks
"This is easily going to be one of my favorite instrumental albums of the year." — Heavy Debriefings
"Hauntingly beautiful." — Score AV
"Expansive and crushing." — Idioteq
“Triumphant." — Echoes and Dust
Top 10 Releases - Post-Rock Reddit user poll
Top 25 AOTY - WherePostRockDwells
“Wrought is a flow, a flow that annihilates time”
— Metalhead
WROUGHT
Released 2022
01. Irusu
02. The Approach
03. Everything is Fine
04. Black Mountain
05. Doom Moon
Produced by Mario Quintero at Gradwell House in Haddonfield Heights, NJ. Mixed by Matt Bayles. Mastered by Will Yip.
ACCOLADES
"Black Mountain is one of the best tracks of the genre, rivals Russian Circles in passion and intensity, better than anything we’ve heard this year." — Rocking.gr (EDITOR'S CHOICE)
"Breathtakingly epic, achingly beautiful." — RTMB Music (9/10)
"They manage to teleport us very quickly towards the highest atmospheric layers.” — Mowno (80/100)
"Hiroe creates heavy, heartbreaking soundscapes, resulting in a crushing debut.” —Amped Up (80/100)
"Relentless honesty and beauty." —Demonic Nights (8/10)
"Ideal soundtrack for moments of reflection.” —World of Metal (8/10)
"Among distinguished bands such as Isis, Pelican, Russian Circles." —Slavestate (4 Stars)
"A barrage of orchestral guitar work that is simultaneously unsettling and uplifting.” —Metal Epidemic (4/5)
"Hiroe at their heaviest are up there with whoever in this sphere you want to namedrop – Russian Circles’ builds and textures, Pelican’s classic pastoralia-as-urban-escapism or Red Sparrows’ wordless storytelling.” — The Obelisk
"A hard-hitting post-metal behemoth, it hurtles riff after riff, amassing a tension that almost consumes and suffocates crushing riffs, that gorge on every ounce of hope, without empathy." —Smashing Skulls
"Crushing guitar that encloses you with sheer command, absolutely solid post-metal.” —Everythingnoise
"One of the most anticipated albums in the community, exceptionally heavy.” —Dar Post Rock
“Gritty intensity with broad progressive flourishes that are bound to appeal to fans of post-rock” —Prog Magazine
"Wrought is a flow, a flow that annihilates time.” —Metalhead
#3 2022 Release - Post-Rock Discovery
#5 2022 Release Post-Rock Central
Top 10 Post-Rock Releases 2022 - Zirck Radio
Top 15 releases 2022 - Metal Sound Media
Top 20 releases 2022 - WherePostRockDwells reader's poll
Top 20 releases 2022 - Post Vinyl
Best EPs of 2022 - Doom Stoner Sludge
Editor's Choice - Rocking.gr
“Black Mountain is one of the best tracks of the genre, rivals Russian Circles in passion and intensity, better than anything we’ve heard this year.”
— Rocking.gr