Saturday, September 21, 2019

Abysmal Grief - Abysmal Grief (2007)

   If anyone may thought it's not possible to show anything new in doom metal that's different from the ordinary Black Sabbath, Candlemass or Cathedral influenced way, Abysmal Grief proved that it's definitely wrong. And they did it by not even showing up with anything extraordinary.
   Their debut starts with rain like if it was a necessary requirement in the genre, such as the strongly occult lyrical concept. But their way is closer to what occultism was in the 19th century, when similar "entertainment" didn't count as the opposite way of being religious, because they often involved Catholic mass features. On the side of short pray details, electric organ themes are leading the listener to a dark funeral mass that might end up in sacrilegious resurrection of the dead. The atmosphere of funerals are an important feature in their music, and they've mixed their feeling with doom metal in a genious way like nobody else before. All of these were made with such ease and simplicity like if pairing the two was the most evident thing on the world, and the question might stand in the listener: "Why nothing like this was made before? And even if something similar was made, why it wasn't so effective?" Occasionally stringed instruments are helping to wonder about the depths of passingness, and the ceremony master's high singing vocal style is often collapsing into mysterious whispering that foretells nothing nice about the afterlife, if there is any. The album is strongly recommended for the fans of the darkest doom metal and also in case of lonely cemetery walks.

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