"Static Tensions sees the avant sludge metallurgists concocting yet another highly individualized piece of post-metal, thicker, darker and seemingly more focused on songcraft than 2006’s Time Will Fuse Its Worth with heavy atmospherics built from aggressive riffs and savage performances. As ever, with Kylesa, it’s a tale of sonic conflict. We hear guitarist/vocalist/producer Phillip Cope versus guitarist/vocalist Laura Pleasants, Cope and Pleasants then teaming up to take on drummer Carl McGinley and drummer Eric Hernandez, McGinley, and Hernandez then turning on each other, the songs doing battle with themselves (and our eardrums) and the unavoidable maturation process and willful progression engaged mano a mano with the desire to bludgeon listeners over the head with heaviness. Whether this is the record that garners Kylesa the notoriety they seem to have been trying to beat down the wall of for so long, I don’t know, but it rocks."