Grey - Sisters of the Wyrd (2008)

It might be quite difficult to keep a girl band together, since metal bands with full female line-up are usually short living. Therefore it's always appreciating when similar projects showing up, and for collectors it's recommended to act soon as possible if they want to purchase something from them.
   Grey's one and only album starts quite atmospheric, that already suspects some dark witchery and paganism-related concept, if the title and the cover art didn't serve enough well as a hint. Soon the well awaited heavy and slowly bouncing, repetitive doom metal themes are evolving with the assistane of deep growling. On the side of the vocal style the death metal influences are represented in the noisy, heavy sound. The band preferred to keep the doom speed. This combination of death and doom metal is based of simplicity, and refers back to the very essence of the style, that is also it's most efffective form. Their frequently returning slow, sorrowful melodies are well composed, and kind of funeral ceremony-compatible too. These serve as some interrupting easement in the middle of the heavy, dark feeling that haunts through the album. There are some deviant sounding depths based on the distorted sound and musical minimalism that they've reached occasionally, but unfortunately they didn't play for long. Except this tiny thing, "Sisters of the Wyrd" is a death/doom masterpiece, and showed a different aspect of the same main concept that shEver also introduced. The analogy is interesting because the two bands probably didn't even know about each other, but still they've created something similar.