I don't expect many people to like this #warning record. Like all doom metal albums it's snail's paced dirge will weed out most listeners and this album is slow even by doom metal standards (it's not funeral doom slow but now I've convoluted this with sub genre's titles). It's five songs in fifty minutes result in long melodramatic songs of loneliness and despair with a dash of dungeons and dragons flair. Nope, it's the nasal warbling croon of the vocalist that proves to be most people's braking point (see what I did there, gosh I'm clever). I'm writing all of this disclaimer because while I freaking love this record anyone I have played this for or suggested to because of shared musical interests have roundly rejected this disc. I get it, and I dont. I've listed the complaints, but all of them also easily fall into cherished reasons why I think this cd is so damn good. Ear of the beholder I suppose.
I discovered this cd by mining the Internet looking for new doom albums to sate my immense appetite for the stuff. The slower the better. The bleaker the better. One person's suggested list looked very similar to my own collection so I combed his titles looking for unfamiliar albums. This cd was nestled in that impressive catalog so I checked a couple distribution sites and with a little effort found it and ordered it straight away. I loved it the first time I played it. It's been a lonely love but I guess that's fitting for a gloomy album like this.
Listening to this album in our kitchen while putting dishes away I sang along and slowly threw my wife the horns. She rolled her eyes and snarked: "it's not as bad as the stuff you usually play."
Hope.
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