Infant Island’s “Kindling” finds a home between extreme metal and dreamy death

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The first two singles from Fredericksburg, Virginia five-piece Infant Island’s third album, Obsidian Wreath, were characteristically obliterating.

But on “Kindling,” the project’s final single before its January 12 release, the clouds part and the hellhounds rest, at least for a while.

The temporary calm in the storm comes courtesy of Harper Boyhtari and Logan Gaval, both members of the shoegazing Flint, Michigan group Greet Death.

Much like Full of Hell and Nothing, who united for the towering collaborative album When No Birds Sang early last month, Infant Island and Greet Death come from opposite ends of the hardcore spectrum, and they use that dissonance to their advantage. “Kindling” begins in a state of gauzy bliss, with Harper Boyhtari’s translucent voice drifting over Gaval’s echoing fuzz guitar.