The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[D.o.S.]

That guitar is rad. Also, that Meth Drinker album is pretty excellent.


Reporting back as I make it through the funeral doom list:

Mornful Congregation, June Frost:
Sounds like a less-hostile Grief. Like a Grief that went to AA and got its shit figured out and still wanted to make records. Or maybe a less-interesting Corrupted. I kind of like it, but it's not really anything I'd go back to, personally speaking. A little too clean + sterile for me. Sounds like a bunch of people in a recording studio putting down parts rather than a band.

Ahab: Call of the Wretched Sea is pretty awesome. I still hate the tones of the leads/melody lines, but I'm accepting that it's a genre convention at this point. I just wish they were mixed behind the rhythm guitars. And/or not there at all.

Digging the Evoken a lot. More spacious, less annoying, probably because the arrangements feel a bit more natural. Also the drumming is seriously feisty for being so understated.

Aldebaran - Buried Beneath Aeons -- Probably my favorite of the lot so far. Rad.

[odontophobia]

Anyone going to the At The Gates/Pallbearer/Converge show in Philly this weekend?

Saw the show in Chicago. It was pretty good. It was at a House of Blues and that was kind of weird but it did sound pretty good. Weird setting to see Converge in.

[TempusEdaxRerum]

That guitar is rad. Also, that Meth Drinker album is pretty excellent.


Reporting back as I make it through the funeral doom list:

Mornful Congregation, June Frost:
Sounds like a less-hostile Grief. Like a Grief that went to AA and got its shit figured out and still wanted to make records. Or maybe a less-interesting Corrupted. I kind of like it, but it's not really anything I'd go back to, personally speaking. A little too clean + sterile for me. Sounds like a bunch of people in a recording studio putting down parts rather than a band.

Ahab: Call of the Wretched Sea is pretty awesome. I still hate the tones of the leads/melody lines, but I'm accepting that it's a genre convention at this point. I just wish they were mixed behind the rhythm guitars. And/or not there at all.

Digging the Evoken a lot. More spacious, less annoying, probably because the arrangements feel a bit more natural. Also the drumming is seriously feisty for being so understated.

Aldebaran - Buried Beneath Aeons -- Probably my favorite of the lot so far. Rad.

Listen to the song The Book of Kings from Mournful Congregation in its entirety (33 or so minutes) that song will either make or break your interest in the band.the tone in that album is amazing it's a total masterpiece and I feel all funeral doom should be compared to the standard set by that album. Personally I found the June frost somewhat dull, but with a couple excellent tracks (suicide choir and descent of the flames). They're extremely heavy live too.

Aldebaran is always a treat. But their older music is a bit sludge/droneish.

[TempusEdaxRerum]

If you want to delve into dirty grimey funeral doom check out the bands Mourning Beloveth, Mistress of the Dead and Wormphlegm.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

What about Forgotten Tomb?... Forgotten?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNyQyG02Uw[/youtube]

[TempusEdaxRerum]

What about Forgotten Tomb?... Forgotten?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNyQyG02Uw[/youtube]

Forgotten Tomb is depressive black metal.

[t-rey]

NGD day yo!



check out the build thread over on guitlove...viewtopic.php?f=188&t=46300

That came out really nicely, Sam

[ryan summit]

thats so beautiful samz

for those of you who dont make it to the other side
i tried out the new EHX bad stone tonight
full volume with tha boys
awesome so fucking awesome
there is some really spooky evil shit in that thing
proper phase for the doommoods

and my new head started smokin
and thats some straight up bullshit

[Iommic Pope]

Ah no!
That sucks man.
Are you able to return it or what?

[ShaolinLambKiller]

What about Forgotten Tomb?... Forgotten?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNyQyG02Uw[/youtube]

Forgotten Tomb is depressive black metal.

ehhh not in my book but I don't care enough to debate it.

[Iommic Pope]

Are we really going to split hairs about sub-sub genres now?
C'mon, we're above that.
This isn't a metalsucks comment thread.

[ShaunNecro]

This isn't a metalsucks comment thread.

Oh that site

[grindonomicon]

Meth Drinker was definitely good stuff, some fugly sludgecore there. Rectal Hygenics sounds like Brainbombs, kind of scuzz doom... Mistress of the Dead is sick! Really liked the buried keyboards/ electronics, vocals mixed like an instrument, more godflesh guitar than stonershred. Mourning Beloveth was a little too overwrought, kind of the opposite of the things I like about MotD. Wormphlegm was just alright with the first song I youtubed, liked the dynamics though, so will listen to more...

More please? Digging Forgotten Tomb a lot, so if it veers into depressive black metal, OK.

[grindonomicon]

What about Forgotten Tomb?... Forgotten?

Forgotten Tomb is depressive black metal.

ehhh not in my book but I don't care enough to debate it.

Dude that's obviously what DSBM stands for on the youtubes page.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

literally didn't even read the youtubes page, but they have plenty enough doomy passages and has artwork that has ripped off black sabbath's vol 4. I remember more from that but I couldn't remember any songs and was linking whatever first came up. I assumed everything was what I recalled.

Yea i really dig Rectal Hygienics. they have a few hints of the hissing choir in their sound as well.

hate metalsucks.