Gomorrah - Gomorrah (2008)

   Gomorrah was formed in the early '90s and sinked into oblivion without anything left behind to hand down. This was changed afterwards in the form of this compilation, that collects their several demo and rehearsal records during their short existence.
   By listening it's easy to realize that it was definitely worth to release these songs, because the band was ahead of it's time. Most were recorded in 1991-2, when the competition of speed and brutality was the most noticeable in the golden age of death metal. Only a few bands took the opposite way, to slow down as much as possible, and to build on the effectiveness of simple, repetitive heavy themes and sound. The exaggeratedly depressing and obscure feeling that Gomorrah reached, only could be compared to Winter, because their music also could count as some proto-funeral doom, but one step closer to that style. It was noisier and more atmospheric than Winter, and also includes the constantly down pulling, hopeless main impression, that is so usual in funeral doom. Still, it's not like an introduction of a passive, slowly decaying vegetative status. This is something more intense (on death/doom scale) in a way of giving a slowly destructive, netherworldish impression. The sound of rehearsal quality and the atmosphere are mainly responsible for the funeral doom-like touch. Even though the band didn't have the chance to be influental and to become one of the heralds of a new style, still they were in a way, unknown in the depths of underground. Therefore their music was quite extraordinary and showed something new that didn't exist before in this form.