Taking a break from what seems to be a death metal-heavy season and we are not even into June yet. Needed to switch it up so going for doom. This British band continues to remind me of what I love about Funeral Doom. Mournfully melodic, heavy sonically, though it slowly with depressive weight, the sound echoing out into caverns below. Not sure this song needs to be twelve minutes regardless of how slow they are playing. The vocals are a muffled mid-range rasp. The production is raw enough to give it personality, but you can still hear everything that is going on. In fact, if cranked up this album sounds massive running into headphones.
The buzz of ambient noise the first song ended with bleeds over into the beginning of "Confraternities of the Cord". It keeps a similar dripping speed as the previous song. It rings out with a more clanging reverb, It almost feels like the kind of atmospheric doom gazing early Jesu tapped into. "Beauty and Atrocity" is just an interlude of ambient noise, things do not get interesting until the sonic pound of "Traitor to Love". The vocals remain at a throat gasp. In some ways this song is more accessible, it moves at a deliberate and more flowing pace.
Then just like that the album fades out on another wave of sound. It almost comes down to this being a single with two songs on it, as there are more instrumental ambient interludes than there is actual songs. I like the ideas that were being developed here, and they are capable of writing songs, think it would have been time better spent than how they cobbled this together. I will give the songs that are here an 8 Certainly a band to pay attention to, as I want to hear what they do on an actual album comprised of real songs. This album drops May24th.
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