Tag Archives: funeral doom

(review) Ahab – ‘The Coral Tombs’ (Napalm Records)

Ovi Nijemci su na sceni još od 2004.i ovo je njihov peti dugosvirajući opus. Dali su sebi ime prema kapetanu kitolovca u romanu Moby Dick, opsjednutom lovom na legendarnog kita. Muzika koju Ahab sviraju je mračan, duboki i spori funeral doom, jako, jako atmosferičan i bučan sa dugim pjesmama, growling death vokalom ispremiješanim sa odličnim clean melodičnim vokalom i kada slušaš njihove stvari osjećaš ritmom kao da te nemilosrdni valovi oceana melju i vuku u dubine bez da si možeš pomoći. Album je dug, preko sat vremena u sedam pjesama od kojih je najkraća šest i pol minuta, a najduža skoro dvanaest i pol minuta. No, nema veze, svaka minuta je interesantna i jako je dobro uživiti se u ovaj bend i njihove albume i dopustiti mašti i srcu da te odvedu nekuda daleko, otkuda se možda nećeš vratiti, ali možda ni nećeš željeti vratiti. Ovo je glazba za po doma, ali siguran sam da su i njihovi live koncerti odličan doživljaj ako si u pravom stanju uma. Moji favoriti na ovom albumu: ‘Mobilis in Mobili’, ‘A Coral Tomb’. Jedan od najboljih doom bendova ikada.

9/10

(review) Ornamentos del Miedo – Frío (Darkwoods)

Ornamentos del Miedo is a one man project from Spain and this is brand new two song e.p. with both tracks being well over eleven minutes long. This project has been in the scene since 2017 and there are three full length opuses and two e.p.-s if we include this one. The music is slow funereal doom with growling death vocals reminding me a lot of all those glorious days and early My Dying Bride releases and similar bands like awesome Thergothon back in the days. Besides doom and gloom Ornamentos del Miedo delivers epic melancholic powerful guitar melodies and slow rolling drums provide atmosphere of gloom, sadness and hopelessness with sometimes providing goosebumps on my skin with melancholic melody thrown here and there. Synth backgrounds lay soundscape that takes you and pulls you further into the music and other dimension. Both of these songs provide such richness of sound that I am really glad that I was able to discover this one. Superb doom.

8,5/10

DARKWOODS: Pagan Black Folk Heritage label & distributor

(review) Shape of Despair – Return to the Void(Season of Mist)

Long time no doom metal to grace the pages of this zine. Now it is time to correct that, and what better way to do it than with new Shape of Despair record. Finns have been in the scene since 1998, even before that when there was a band called Raven. This band is featuring members and former members of Finnish bands such as Finntroll, Throes of Dawn, Impaled Nazarene, Tyrant, Barathrum…

What to expect on this record? This is band´s fifth full length and it has been seven years since the last album came out. This opus features six songs of despair, slow funeral doom with lots of atmospheric parts, melancholic melodies and sorrow mixed with partly aggression done in a way only Finnish bands can do it. Songs are long, with shortest being just under eight minutes but it does not get boring for a second. Quite the contrary, guitar work, synths and drums carry us to some other dark place, coupled with vocal interplay, courtesy of singers Henri and Natalie whose voices fit just perfectly in the whole picture. Death doom growls interwine with clean passages and melodic parts, emphasizing loneliness, misery, pain and futility of life itself. But, this record also gives hope. Why? Because, no matter how hard, hopeless it is, metal is still here and always will be.

8,5/10