Friday, February 26, 2010

Doombringers

Doom can go one of two ways. It can either be this torrid slow dirge of despair and the introspective exploration of ones own wrenching emotions, or it can be this torrid slow dirge of death, devastation, living sacrifice, and demonic obsessed destructive force.

I'm opting to go for the latter version of Doom for this post. I do enjoy eloquent Doom bands of the former aforementioned style which I will cover in future posts but today I'm feeling appreciative of the more insidious practitioners of the grueling art that is Doom.

Doom can either be this meandering boring creature or it can drive you to the depths while captivating you. The idea is for the slothful song creations to drag you from start to finish through the darkest muck of the self, or in the case of the following two bands, the darkness of death. This is all done while captivating you with the very heavy, slow fuck, style that it is.
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Hooded Menace - Fulfill The Curse (2008)



Hooded Menace is a Doom duo from Finland with two full lengths (the second coming out Spring of this year) and a plethora of splits lined up.

Fulfill The Curse Mixes doom and sludge with death metal themes. The band's debut carries plenty slow and devious momentum. Their doom influences only go on for so long until you are immersed in mid paced D-beat action that is so thick you can drizzle it over pancakes. Their faster parts are direct throwbacks to old school death metal and they are done most exceptionally well. Their balance between slow sinister grooves and wretched death n' roll metal riffage makes for a strong first effort.

Clearly horror fanatics, Hooded Menace deliver howling tracks that give you that locked away in a remote dungeon while awaiting your untimely demise by way of boiling to death feel.

It's going to be interesting to see if their follow up album continues in this way while still keeping things interesting. I believe Hooded Menace will step up and prove to be a powerful force in the Doom world.

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Coffins - Buried Death (2008)



Japan filth death doomsters Coffins are becoming more and more known by the day, and they should be. This band is clearly well versed in the way of classic Doom and Death Metal. Buried Death is their strongest full length, and note I said full length. The band currently has over half a dozen splits and four full lengths including the one mentioned here.

Similar to Hooded Menace but different in that they tend to lean more towards the Death Metal side of things, Coffins is another great tribute to the classic Death Metal era which I find myself appreciating more and more as new bands that enter the Death Metal world are either boring as fuck with their over produced mundane sound and Dan Seagrave knock off album cover art, or think that breakdowns are now a staple for any kind of music and thus compromise themselves.

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