Funeral Doom

[Eoin McLove]

https://youtu.be/XpfILcUdnsw

This song blows my mind. 

[Eoin McLove]

I received the reissue of Thergothon's 'Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth' demo LP today.  It looks great, has full lyrics and band photos I've never seen before and also contains two bonus rehearsal tracks.  I haven't given it a spin yet, so I can't comment on the sound but these songs just grow on me more and more as time passes. Such a fantastically unique entity.  To think the members were all between 15 and 17 writing and recording this demo is frightening.

[Eoin McLove]

Fuck it,  I fired it on when I should really be going to bed.  Sounds the business.  So gnarly.  I really think that funeral doom loses something when it becomes too polished.  Give me the fucked up sounding shit any day.

[The Ancient Ones]

How does the sound compare to the original demo and the CD reissue? I got the demo way back in the day from the band but somewhere along the way my fucking brother taped over it with dance music! The CD packaging looks great but they added a huge reverb to the sound, possibly to mask the poor sound of the demo. The demo sound was indeed lacking but, given the style of music and the lyrics, it almost seemed to work in its favour - giving it an almost fatalism which fitted perfectly with the tales of human cosmic insignificance.

[Eoin McLove]

I only have a taped copy of it that Pentagrimes made for me years ago. I'm not sure what version he recorded it from.  The sound on the new vinyl version could only be described as noisy but clear. Everything is audible but it's not exactly polished sounding 

[Eoin McLove]

Svart put up pre-orders for a vinyl edition of Skepticism's 'Alloy' as well as a 2CD edition including the 'Aes' EP. I have both CDs but that vinyl is a mandatory purchase 

[BlackWizard]

Where's the best place to start with Skepticism? I know ive heard of Stormcrowfleet before!

[Eoin McLove]

Stormcrowfleet is fantastic and the remastered Svart edition is well worth picking up.  The original,  musty and distant sounding Red Steam edition is cool too,  if you're into a more obscure sound.

Alloy is monumental and has a clearer production.  Simply epic in all respects.

Their last one,  Ordeal, is phenomenal in my opinion.  It was all recorded in one take at a gig so it has its rough edges but I wouldn't want it any other way. 

Some of their other stuff I find a bit hard to get into.

[Necr0rceN]

Love Skepticism, still regretting not seeing them in London with Pantheist when they played in St Giles church.

Anyhow, not theoretically Funeral Doom, but the pace and heaviness of it always reminds me that they have been classified wrong is Disembowelment. Transcendence into the Peripheral is one of my all time favorite albums and still I go back to it every few months.

https://youtu.be/9-gRJ-fHDjI

[Snare]

Officium Triste not been mentioned yet? Great band.

https://youtu.be/bMbE1P-pzOM

Great band indeed, but more death doom. Only actually came across them this year and promptly purchased The Death of Gaia:
https://officiumtriste.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-of-gaia-atmospheric-death-doom-metal

Some great recordings on Transcending Obscurity led me to it. I was aware of OT for years but never actually checked them out. Considering they're going for over 25 years, is there something that tops this? Hat tipping Chorus of Ruin as an influence is a rarity I reckon, and perks the interest for checking out earlier material. Thanks in advance for any pointers.

[Melmoth]

One of my favourite funeral doom releases:

https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/the-june-frost-2

[Pentagrimes]

Anyhow, not theoretically Funeral Doom, but the pace and heaviness of it always reminds me that they have been classified wrong is Disembowelment. Transcendence into the Peripheral is one of my all time favorite albums and still I go back to it every few months.

https://youtu.be/9-gRJ-fHDjI

One of my favourite records/bands in any genre of all time. Having said that, I much prefer the version of "Cerulean Transience.." on "Dusk" than on the album. The end section on that still sounds as magical to me nowadays as it did when I first heard it when I was 16 or whatever. Magnificent. I don't think people nowadays really appreciate how groundbreaking they were. Every time you hear a death or doom band put a clean riverbed guitar line over a big riff,these lads invented that



The recent Worm album "Gloomlord" is worth checking out if you're a Disembowelment fan.

[Thanatos]

New Skepticism on the way!

https://svartrecords.com/product/skepticism-companion-album/?goal=0_d9c701f71e-2068ad82ad-98222819&mc_cid=2068ad82ad&mc_eid=ed27d6a66e

[Eoin McLove]

Can't feckin wait.  Ordeal was a beaut.

[Eoin McLove]

https://youtu.be/Jpj6gR1AE24

A new Skepticism song is up. It sounds like they hit the hard epic crescendo button at the start and just kept rocking it hard right until the end. Is it September yet? Is it September yet?......