Temple Of Void - The World That Was review
Band: | Temple Of Void |
Album: | The World That Was |
Release date: | March 2020 |
01. A Beast Among Us
02. Self-Schism
03. A Single Obolous
04. Leave The Light Behind
05. Casket Of Shame
06. The World That Was
If you have good taste in music, it is difficult to make bad music yourself. And in the promo pictures for their latest album, The World That Was, Temple Of Void members are sporting t-shirts with logos of Gorguts, Morbid Angel, Killing Joke, Amorphis, and Fell Ruin. Not bad, lads. Not bad at all.
Despite coming from the USA, the band's sound has been crafted using elements of European acts, such as Bolt Thrower and Asphyx on one hand, and Paradise Lost and Katatonia on the other. Temple Of Void's music focuses on crestfallen and tomb-shattering riffs that break the silence of swampy caverns in a way very similar to their Finnish counterparts, Hooded Menace. The Detroit-based death doomsters have now employed extra layers of synths as a means to add more depth to these riffs and they actually manage to tie everything together more cohesively than ever before.
To briefly analyse particular songs, "Casket Of Shame" boasts some excellent groove death metal riffs without losing the overall doom identity of the album as you can hear in the final minutes of the song, and "Leave The Light Behind" stands out with its gothic aura, its clean vocals and the spacey synths. "Self-Schism" is the epitome of the band's style, with its slow, crawling pace and its throbbing bass setting the tone, but it is in the closing title track where you can experience Temple Of Void at their most majestic ever. "The World That Was" is a nearly 10-minute death doom masterpiece that can roughly be dissected into three parts that blend together seamlessly; a sombre and melancholic opening grows into stomping death metal, which in turn liquefies into melodic, almost shoegaze-like reverie.
Temple Of Void had a busy year so far; they have already released a single for the Decibel magazine flexi series, they have contributed three tracks to the 4 Doors To Death II split release, and they have also unleashed what sounds to me as their most ambitious album yet. The World That Was is very cinematic with gloomy atmosphere and rich production, without falling behind in heaviness. And the album art by Adam Burke is breathtaking.
"Devour the hours until only darkness is left."
| Written on 07.05.2020 by Only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud! |
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