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The Best Extreme Doom Metal Album
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2009 saw the return of the masters (captains?) of Nautical Funeral Doom Metal, following up 2006's winning "Call Of The Wretched Sea" with a prequel, if you will. With riffs as slow as the tide and as crushing as a tsunami, "The Divinity Of Oceans" contains all the power of their last offering, only now with some occasional clean vocals and post-metal elements giving this voyage depth. Doom ahoy, mateys.
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Arcana Coelestia is one little gem, that's for sure. Mark our words, Arcana Coelestia is going to make it big. Perhaps not as big as Esoteric, seemingly their biggest inspiration, but big nonetheless. Their mixture of Black and Funeral Doom as displayed on Le Mirage De l'Idéal is as twisted and cataclysmic as it is genial and riveting. Based on the "Infernocrisis" by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, Le Mirage De L'Idéal is an overwhelming story of madness and insanity.
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Funeral Doom equals minimalism and lifeless instrumentation by default? Guess again. Colosseum proves that Funeral Doom can be rich and profound in instrumentation and overwhelming in sound. Chapter II - Numquam is filled with heavy riffs, deep growls and delicate synths and on top of that it features trumpet, cello, violin and flute sections. And if that isn't enough for your, every once in a while a beautiful guitar lead rears its head. You won't be bored by this one.
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Longing For Dawn has never been among the big guys in Funeral Doom, but luckily for us, that has always motivated them to release better and better albums. Their third album Between Elation And Despair is once again a real beauty. It's quite an accessible release, for extreme Doom standards anyway, yet it has all the elements that make this genre what it is. Expect a harrowing sense of despair, slow slow slooow music and an overwhelming crushing sound paired with saddened melodies.
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Moss is long renowned for its breed of droning musical hostility. This particular opus, while a measly EP by the standards of extreme doom, is a worthy follow-up to the band's previous full-length albums. Indeed it drugs you with poisonous mold, pops out your living eyes and accompanies your journey into beast-fanged subterranean darkness with a languid brutality not often seen.
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Mournful Congregation - The June Frost
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| If you're looking for some Funeral Doom that's as close to its name as it could possibly get, check out Mournful Congregation. Funeral Doom is a varied subgenre of course, but they are without doubt one of the pinnacles of it. A slow pace, a lead-heavy sound and a sense of despair that could make a Carebear kill himself (herself? itself?), it's all tear. But Mournful Congregation adds wonderfully sad leads and melodies and Damon's unique mournful growl, all in all resulting in a monstrously depressing album. |
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Mourning Dawn is a lead heavy steamroller heavily armed with steal spikes and other wretched deformities. Mourning Dawn does not like you and in fact, Mourning Dawn does not like anything. And that, boys and girls, is why Mourning Dawn is going to destroy the world and kill everyone in it. Or at least, that's what we get from bury ourselves in the hateful, ice-cold and heartless Doom-influenced Black metal of For The Fallen... God Damn The Sun indeed.
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| The album opens reminding the listener "the outer body is a stinking cadaver, because it still lives in poison", and goes downhill from there. Glaciers advance faster than the songs on this album. Empty, reverberating drums, painfully slow guitar melodies, somewhat buried vocals, wrapped in a Yanni-paced organ… these guys sure put the "Fun" in "Funeral!" |
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| "And lo! this victim of a thousand miseries, this man of flesh and blood, was taken and pressed face first against the Outer Walls of Night, and in the air rife with dismal funerary howls was his bleeding back pounded at with the Stone Tablets of Sinai, and he was done great injustice." So sayeth the Book of Doom, in the chapter on Funerals, prophesied by Stabat Mater in the verse bearing His Own Name. |
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Urna - Iter ad Lucem
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| If you think Italy is only capable of producing Rhapsody Of Fire-esque cheese and that Funeral Doom is dull and boring, check out Urna. Their third full-length Iter Ad Lucem will surely prove you wrong on both accounts. Through their opaque yet harrowing lead guitars, the spacious yet choking sound and their cataclysmic beauty Urna is a band that destroys you without you noticing it. Until your guts spill on the floor, that is... Iter Ad Lucem (loosely translated as "journey towards the light") is one deliciously deceptive album. |
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