Funeral Doom

Omination – NGR (New Golgotha Repvbliq) Review

By Cherd on February 5, 2021 in Reviews, Funeral Doom, 49 comments

“It may not be quite accurate to say funeral doom is about minimalism, but it’s not far from the truth either. Much of that is a result of the pace. Even if a funeral doom song has as much going on as a regular metal song when condensed to a regular runtime, stretched over 15 or 20 minutes, it sounds like less. Notes are sustained longer, beats per minute are reduced, and at any given moment, less really is going on. Until now, I would have told you the idea of maximalist funeral doom was an oxymoron, antithetical. It seems no one told that to Tunisia’s Omination.” Maximum doom.

Mourners – Act I: Tragedies Review

By Grymm on February 2, 2021 in Reviews, Funeral Doom, 16 comments

“Daniel Neagoe is funeral doom’s answer to Rogga Johansson, with no less than ten active bands at the time of this review, according to Metal Archives. Most everyone can agree, however, that his biggest footprint lies with the funeral doom supergroup Clouds, and his mammoth beast Eye of Solitude. Sadly, the latter dissolved in 2019, as Neagoe felt the project came to its logical conclusion. That said, Neagoe teamed up with Clouds guitarist Mihai Dinuta and Eye drummer Siebe Hermans to launch Eye’s spiritual continuation, Mourners.” Happy tragedies.

Ivan – Silver Screens [Things You Might Have Missed 2020]

By Cherd on December 21, 2020 in Things You Might Have Missed 2020, Funeral Doom, 91 comments

“For those few keeping track, 2020 has been an exceptionally solid year for funeral doom. Convocation, Atramentus, Drown, Mourners and Lone Wanderer all put out top shelf bottles of distilled despondency, while golden boys Bell Witch returned to collaborate, mostly successfully, with Aerial Ruin. While each of these albums occupied a slightly different niche of the style, none wandered so far afield with such thrilling results as Australian duo Ivan on their fifth release Silver Screens.” Strange screenings.

The Funeral Orchestra – Negative Evocation Rights Review

By Carcharodon on July 14, 2020 in Reviews, Funeral Doom, 13 comments

“As just the second full-length from The Funeral Orchestra in 18 years of existence, to say that Negative Evocation Rights has been long in the making feels like a massive understatement. The follow up to 2003’s Feeding the Abyss, and given the band’s nom de plume and the fact that this Swedish trio do actually specialize in an ultra-slow, stripped back form of doom – it should be my opportunity to hold forth, at length, on the funeral doom genre.” Charnel knowledge.

Noctu – Gelidae Mortis Imago Review

By Master of Muppets on May 19, 2020 in Reviews, Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, 30 comments

“When I hear the term “funeral doom,” several words immediately come to mind: slow, reeeally fucking slow, crushing, monolithic, etc. I am moved to many turns ov phrase in the presence of funeral doom, yet one word which rarely plods to the forefront of my funereal lexicon is also one which I cannot avoid when discussing the genre: what is “funeral,” Alex?” I’ll take Potpourr-zees for $200.

Drown – Subaqueous Review

By Steel Druhm on February 27, 2020 in 2020, American Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Prophecy Productions, Reviews, Death Metal, Funeral Doom, 40 comments

“Funeral doom was never a genre I willingly embraced or ever truly “got,” but as I grow older I seem to be finding more and more affinity for it. Perhaps that’s because I’m getting closer to picking out caskets for my own funeral, or maybe age has slowed me to the point where I can better appreciate other slow things, like turtles and the US legal system. Whatever the case may be, Subaqueous, the second album by Drown, is helping bring me around on this most niche of genres.” Death in the water.

Treurwilg – An End to Rumination Review

By Cherd on February 24, 2020 in 2020, Doom Metal, Dutch Metal, Post-metal, Reviews, Self-released, Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, Post-Metal, 18 comments

“Treurwilg draws from different doom metal traditions, particularly the strange bedfellows of post-metal and funeral doom. If Isis and Ahab were shipmates on an Oceanic journey, they’d make something like An End to Rumination.” Rumination with a view.

Slow – VI – Dantalion Review

By Master of Muppets on November 24, 2019 in 2019, Aural Music, Belgian Metal, Doom Metal, Reviews, Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, 36 comments

“An indifferent moon silently presides over an ocean bejeweled with the shimmering ghosts of stars, witness to all and concerned with none. The air is alive with salt and sea breeze, the water as clear and cold as the uncompromising truth that is mortality. You, of course, are aware of precisely none of these things, nor of anything else aside from your own clear, cold reality: You’re fucking drowning, yo. Waxen, hypoxic skin and waterlogged lungs are all that you are here, a stifled testimony of abject self defeat and an inconsequential offering to no one; defeated, drowning… dead. This is what the darkest shades of depression feel like, a perpetually cold and helpless state of being on the wrong side of a near death moment as the world around you spins on, unaffected and insouciant. VI – Dantalion is the soundtrack to such a self-sustained drowning.” Deep waters.

The Drowning – The Radiant Dark Review and Album Premiere

By Kenstrosity on November 5, 2019 in 2019, British Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Reviews, Transcending Obscurity, Death Doom, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, 132 comments

“Since we got ourselves into the whole album premiere business not too long ago, I wondered what kind of album it would take to warrant a premiere of my own. Shockingly, I didn’t have to wait very long. Thanks to a certain Muppety influence, I ~~acquired~~ was deemed just barely worthy of access to a monumental death-doom album that very quickly rose to the top of my year-end contenders list. Imagine my sadistic ecstasy as I rushed to resuscitate The Drowning from the promo pool, only to discover that one sparkly sponge absorbed the Assign To bubble weeks beforehand. Joy Accordia! I’ll not be forgiven for this, not for an eternity.” Drinking deeply of despair.

Profetus – The Sadness of Time Passing Review

By Cherd on October 9, 2019 in 2019, Avantgarde Music, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Finnish Metal, Reviews, Death Doom, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Funeral Doom, 11 comments

“From the first minutes, it will be obvious to followers of the style that Profetus model their slow trudging misery after funeral forefathers Thergothon and Skepticism. This makes sense, as all three bands hail from Finland, home of the world’s most metal bands per capita at two bands per person.” Remembrance of heavy things past.