Nightfell : "Never Comes the Storm"

Here is a band whose first album, really caught my ear and I have been following them ever since. They have never really let me down, though what they do can vary album to album as they continue to  juggled both sides of the death doom equation. More often than not they fall on the death metal side, but they are one of the few death doom bands who truly capture the mournful doom sound the right way while maintaining their aggression. The opening track of their fourth album displays a greatly matured song writing approach brining a wider range of dynamics to a band whose skills in this area already typically outclassed their peers. 

Perhaps their writing is not as prolific and is a matter of quality over quantity, as there are more pieces in the two-and-a-half-minute range than actual songs, these are more like interlude or intro pieces. Out of six songs only three of them are actual songs. he second of these songs is the title track. It is a more straightforward death metal attack. It starts off with more of a up-tempo though not blasting pace. The vocals are a powerful growl. I like this guys' growl he really does it right, rather than just defaulting to something because he can not sing. The middle section of this song simmers down into a slower pulse. It  picks back up after this section with renewed aggression.   

They take more chances on the last song. It is more doom like in many ways, the gang chanted vocals are certainly different, and it can not be said the band is not capable of summing a very large sound. There is a very doomy riff which is cool and it does seem like the mood they are in for this song,. They take a weird turn in the middle of the song and allowed a sample from what seems to be a horror movie take over the narrative .Then when the song comes out of this it goes back into a variation of the gang chant vocal riff. It sounds like they break out bag pipes and everything at the end here which is going overboard unless you are Korn I guess, though I guess there are bag pipes often played at funerals . I will give this a 9 for the songs they do bring to the table are solid as usual, I just wish this was a full length instead of an ep when you consider the actual songs presented.