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Moods of dismal death doom dominate the landscape alongside some unexpectedly classic clean guitar work. The hopelessness of doom metal is clear, yet there is a beauty to it. Some songs feature clean, even bluesy, guitars, which bring a classic, vintage vibe. Murky distortion falls over the dark riffing, then suddenly you're transported through time and listening to a great doom album while sitting on the brown shag carpet of someone's smoky basement while wearing orange polyester pants. Trust us. It just works.
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What do you get when you collide the classic doom riffs of Candlemass with the grating snarls of Venom's Cronos? You get Anguish of course. Blackly laced traditional and epic doom of the highest calibre. Only dirtier. A nostalgic trip with a refreshing twist.
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Effigies Of Evil is as painful and punishing as a stab in your back. At times haunting, at times slowly putrid, this death/doom perfection from the Finnish group even manages to throw in opulent melodies for good measure. Sometimes reaching pure terror, this is relentless from beginning to end.
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333 shows off Hour Of 13's education in the schools of old, with the sort of no-nonsense, down-to-business approach to mixing and songwriting everyone loves from old doom. Yeah, they play deeply derivative stuff, but they do it like pros and, talking about 2012 releases, they did it better than one of their more noticeable influences Saint Vitus.
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Painted Windows Black may not be the melancholic variety of a doom metal album, as it's more of a mid-paced groovy affair. However, the wah-drenched solos and the 70's psychedelic jamming vibe can probably do a good job in painting your windows more colourful than Skittles.
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Pallbearer is the new kid in doom town but Sorrow And Extinction is a majestic work of palpable desolation capable of challenging the best. The sorrowful tunes and guitar swirls are more than anything unsettling. This debut is brimming with honesty and passion but probably its most admirable quality is being emotional thus resonating so much with the listener. You will easily get lost in the shadows of Sorrow And Extinction but this will also give you a high that only music this good can give you.
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After 6 years long period of drought, Saturnus have returned with another influential strong (melodic death) doom release, that shall engage the interest and enlighten the horizons to the listeners, with the creative piece of gloomy, melancholic soundscapes and emotional atmosphere once again. With the pure production of their distinctly contagious sound, these guys simply leave no chance to disappoint.
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| All the meat shredding and soul ripping Ed Warby has done with Hail Of Bullets and Demiurg must have been mentally taxing, as heart wrenching sorrow literally spills from this release. Beware if you catch yourself shedding a tear when listening to this album, for it could be your Lacrima Mortis - the tear shed hours prior death. |
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Symphonic funeral doom: darkly beautiful at some points and subtly epic at others. In addition to the atmospheric keyboards, this one-man-band deftly applies the guitars and drums to add the real substance and weight to the music. It doesn't go so far as "crushing" but it gets close. It's slightly warmer than that, and somehow not 1000% hopeless like so much of this genre loves to be. The perfect soundtrack to an evening of mediation.
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It's been a stellar year for the UK doom scene, and Witchsorrow's sophomore is certainly no exception. Classic, crushing doom of the highest order that recalls the early works of Cathedral in particular and improves on their debut album a tangible amount with a harder hitting sound and compelling song writing.
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