Style: funeral doom metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: the entirety of human sorrow distilled into one album
Thoughts: Funeral doom is a genre that shows so much promise, but it's so rare that a band can tap into even a small moniker of what the genre is capable of. They fall short on the production, the melodies, the commitment to utter despair, or something completely intangible. Obseqvies falls victim to none of those... they have in essence created the perfect funeral doom album.
Three songs, one hour. This is funeral doom. Never once does the band go beyond 30 bpm. This is funeral doom. The riffs are so slow and so heavy it feels like an inescapable doom is crushing me. This is funeral doom. The vocals are so deep and guttural that I can't understand a thing that they are saying. This is funeral doom. The keyboards and riffs ooze with sorrow and collectively weep for those lost. This is funeral doom. The Hours of My Wake defines funeral doom.
Whatever processed this band to create this record I hope that no human on earth has to repeat it. There is so much sorrow, so much pain here that it feels real. The songwriter(s) had to have gone through something incredibly scarring to create something like this. While I wouldn't wish that on anyone else, I am so glad that the band managed to tap into those emotions and create true art from it.
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