Review: The Salt Pale Collective – And God Said Nothing

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st July 2026 British doom titans The Salt Pale Collective have been pretty quiet since their stunning 2023 debut record, ‘A Body That Could Pass Through Stones and Trees’, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy working away on the follow up. That debut came in at number eight on our Album of the Year list 2023, and so to say that I have been waiting for this new record for a while is perhaps an understatement. Well, finally we have ‘And God Said Nothing’, out at the end of July self released, and it feels like it could be even heavier and darker than their previous. As the eerie hum of opening track ‘Raised Aloft Upon the Horn of the Celestial Bull’ builds with weighty intent, a thick ambient hum underneath ghostly voices, you can feel the oppression begin to take hold before it descends fully into that churning morass of doom-laden death metal. The title track lurches and heaves with a roiling, oily blackness under the abyssal roars and…