Walk Through Fire - Furthest from Heaven (2011)

    Walk Through Fire formed as an experimenting band who preferred to mix sludge/doom with post metal during noisy, endlessly extended methods, that are more reminding to rehearsal jamming than to precisely composed songwriting.
   On their second album the post metal features had a more fixed melodic role, and the heaviness of sludgy doom was mainly in focus. The songs need a lot of patience to unfold through long, monotonous and strained processes, but according to the main concept of the album it's completely relevant, and also reflects well the helpless drifting in the depths of depression by being unable to act reasonably. "Furthest from Heaven" is like a combination of a strongly demoralizing point of view and the heavy outburst of sour anger. The two creates a great contrast, but also completing each other well. There's an endlessly desperate feeling that leads through the album. It shows the complete lack of any hope to find a way back from certain doom, and paves the road there through intense misery and rage. While listening there might be a frequently returning feeling, that something's missing from the album, until an ambient-like very depressing track, that meant to be the intro of the album's final act. Both are heavily effective by their intended ways, the intro by demoralizing, and the last song by introducing the unbearable agony. "Furthest from Heaven" could serve with memorable experience for the fans of depressing sludge/doom metal.