By "Liquid Dimension Change" Abstract Spirit created an album that leads through the borders of funeral doom, and shows such diversity, that's unusual to the style. Their returning record "Tragedy and Weeds" extended this tendency even further by merging into the depths of the musical wealthiness that came by their mixed influences.
Their experimenting with themes unlocked catchier melodies and also involved well known ones like the funeral march, and interestingly a whole song was built upon it (Funeral Waltz). The atmosphere that was achieved on the previous album both by effects and keyboards, got assistance by brass instruments, most possibly by tubas, that gave the impression if a whole orchestra would cooperate with the band. It turned out that tubas surprisingly well fitting into funeral doom and with the keyboards together their influence on the music is quite genuine. The metal and classical elements are so well composed and unified, that it should be given to most symphonic metal bands as homework to listen to, like "see folks, this is how it should be done". The sound seemingly doesn't need to turn softer or less noisy to let the classical features to prevail. It's interesting cause most bands have to change their sound completely even if they want to go progressive or more technical than usual, not to mention the involvement of other, non-metal elements. But here's the best example how its could be done without, and on pro level, by classical features. The vocals occasionally also switching from deep growling to a higher, more cawing-like tone, mostly in backing vocals style. "Tragedy and Weeds" is the same time extremely heavy, tragic, down-pulling and endlessly exciting to listen to. The themes, the atmosphere, the sound and the deep growling vocals are all overwhelming one by one too, but together they created something that could be described only as musical excellence. Another masterpiece released to the world by Abstract Spirit.
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