Atramentus - Stygian
| Release date: | 21 August 2020 |
| Style: | Funeral doom metal |
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01. Stygian I: From Tumultuous Heavens… (Descended Forth The Ceaseless Darkness)
02. Stygian II: In Ageless Slumber (As I Dream In The Doleful Embrace Of The Howling Black Winds)
03. Stygian III: Perennial Voyage (Across The Perpetual Planes Of Crying Frost & Steel-Eroding Blizzards)
The Best Extreme Doom Metal Album Of 2020
02. Stygian II: In Ageless Slumber (As I Dream In The Doleful Embrace Of The Howling Black Winds)
03. Stygian III: Perennial Voyage (Across The Perpetual Planes Of Crying Frost & Steel-Eroding Blizzards)
The Best Extreme Doom Metal Album Of 2020
ReviewRecorded, engineered and mixed by Xavier Berthiaume at Studio Tehom in Montreal, QC.
Mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios in Birmingham
Cover artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski and layout by Chimere Noire.
Rating:
9.0
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Rating: 9.0 |
Turns out the slow gurgling vocals of caverncore work just as well when slowed down on some funeral doom. Read more ›› |
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| Neachy Posts: 396 From: USA  |
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| Enemy of Reality Posts: 637 From: Portugal  |
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| Starvynth i c deaf people Posts: 1554 From: Germany  |
By a large margin best funeral doom I've heard this year and I can't believe that this is their debut. The vocals are insane, can't get enough of the gurgling throat singing (?) of "Stygian III". Funeral doom AOTY thus far.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Posts: 20773 From: Canada  |
Written by Starvynth on 23.08.2020 at 15:07 Cheers for the inadvertent suggestion. And to think I'd miss something great coming out of Quebec. Shame on me. 
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| musclassia Posts: 3227 From: UK  |
Written by Starvynth on 23.08.2020 at 15:07 I've just started listening to it, and that opening gargle a minute into the first track is quite something
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| Tornado Of Souls Posts: 60 From: UK |
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| Starvynth i c deaf people Posts: 1554 From: Germany |
Written by Tornado Of Souls on 29.08.2020 at 01:12 I'm listening to Chthe'ilist's Le Dernier Crépuscule right now and I can indeed confirm a striking resemblance to Demilich... Thanks for the rec!
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| DeliciousDishes always right Posts: 564 From: Germany  |
I think it's fine. Didn't blow me away like it seemed to have most others. But maybe I'm just too busy and depressed rn for it. Though tbh that's prime funeral doom mood and if it can't capture that... Seems a bit by the numbers and not too emotional
---- You are the hammer, I am the nail building a house in the fire on the hill
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Posts: 20773 From: Canada |
Written by DeliciousDishes on 08.09.2020 at 22:14 I'm with you there. I think it's a really good album but not quite deserving of some of the hype it's getting online. Its greatest strength is its atmosphere but lacks variation in the riff department, even with the piano usage and pace change.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1686 From: Mexico  |
Oh man, this is just too good to be real. From the beginning you know you're in for a ride.
---- "Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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| quieted_darkness Posts: 205 From: USA  |
I absolutely loved the first track. As many have said the vocals are insane. Which is the main reasoning for my high score. The final track though wasn't as great as the first. I wasn't a fan of the "crying" guitar because it reminds me a bit of the shredding genre which I'm not a fan of.
---- "If people kept things simple, there would be no discoveries in the world. If scientists said, "The brain is just a brain" and not take it by small segments and labeling it - We would not have come as far. Labels are necessary. Music is sci
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