Rigor Sardonicous - Apocalypsis Damnare (2005)

    "Apocalypsis Damnare" was the first full-lenght album of Rigor Sardonicous, re-released in 2005 as their third one. They sound like a mainly Thergothon influenced funeral doom band that prefers death/doom themes, but Rigor Sardonicous exists since the late '80s, when even the term "funeral doom" didn't exist yet. So probably old school death metal bands were their first influences.
  In this case something had to change suddenly when bands like Thergothon and Skepticism showed up. The same endlessly extended and slow themes could be heard on "Apocalypsis Damnare", but in a noisier, heavier version and in better quality. Even though they still didn't go further with the sound quality than the level of a rehearsal record, still more could be heard out from their music than from the classics of the genre. The noise creates a monotonous down pulling atmosphere and a very deep, probably artificially distorted vocal growls about the less bright side of life... in fact mostly about it's end. To compense their short staffed lineup, they used programmed beats, but like in most cases when people doing that who have low percusion experience, the result often sounds like if the carpet would be pulled out under someone who falls right back onto a pile of dish. That might be hard to imagine in this style, but at the occasional death/doom speed ups it could be sensed. Except these small aesthetical issues the album could be entertaining for the fans of heavily demoralizing sound.