Ethereal Tomb are hailing from Canada and they were formed in 2021. This is their third full length opus and it contains eight songs. The music of Ethereal Tomb is very heavy, very harsh mixture of doom metal and sludge with slow rolling thundering drums, double bass, smart use of samples which rules in my opinion at the start of the album, there are also tortured vocals screaming about suffering, death, hate and similar lyrical themes. If I must compare it with some band it would be EyeHateGod minus punk influences, but it kept originality not simply copying some band in the scene. Ethereal Tomb are more metalized than aforementioned band. The songs are not long as it usually could be case in this genre, so that is another plus for this record, because it doesn’t get boring for a second. Life is hard. Be harder. If you are fan of gritty, harsh, bleak and hopeless sludge doom metal with occasional slight guitar melody, check out this beauty. My personal favorites on this one are Abandon Suffering, Unbecoming and Death Of The Indian. Gotta love raw emotions these guys deliver in your face!
8,5/10
