Style: Funeral doom metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Do you hear that? That... is the sound of inevitability
Thoughts: Whenever I start listening to The Incubus of Karma I have to take a few deep breaths. The Indwelling Ascent is one of the best intro's to an album I've heard in a long while. It has that quality where it gives me pause. When the main melody comes in around two minutes I have to focus on my breathing, if I don't then there's a chance that the pure sorrow of the song will overwhelm me. No joke.
After the intro though... things don't do nearly as much for me. The magic that was in every moment of The Book of Kings is fleeting here. The band focuses more on the crushing weight of the guitars throughout the album, which is fine... but also more generic than I prefer.
The music still crushes my soul, it still makes me ponder why I even bother. It calls into question all the things that I hold dear and how life is fleeting. But it doesn't have that broken beauty that The Book of Kings does. It's lacking the edge that the band had in the past, and I fear that it's gone. I suppose everything is fleeting...
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