Punishing French funeral doom. Deep chasms of guttural-filled despondency that build to cathartic, howling death/doom peaks.
Track listing:
-Disc One-
1. Blood, Phlegm, and Vomit
2. 21st Century Ineptia
3. Deceived Idealism
-Disc Two-
1. Hang These Bastards
2. Don't Hope for Any Better Things Now
3. The Higher We Climb, the Harder We Fall
Behold how they err
And how they are happy to err
Also listen to:
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| Evoken - Embrace the Emptiness (1998) |
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| Despond - Supreme Funeral Oration (2003) |
A drummer (who plays in all types of bands from jazz to folk to extreme metal) once told me that, perhaps paradoxically, funeral doom is by far the hardest genre to play. Both the band and the listeners get in some sort of trance when this genre is done right, and the drummer is at the very core of this experience. If his snare hit is one millisecond off, everything is fucked.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely true. So much counting and NOT playing, those few hits have to be totally precise. Funeral doom falls apart pretty quickly without more-or-less perfect timing.
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