ESOTERIC

Release Year: 2014
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: heavy apocalyptic funeral doom metal

gargantuan fifth longplay [2008] by UK's premier ensemble of cathartic apocalyptic doom is gloomy, heavy, sorrowful, and insane, but still overwhelmingly skillful and beautiful creation of evocative and psychedelic art, eating over one hundred minutes of your life off like a bottomless void of anguish and utter depression: doom metal has never sounded as profound, transcendental and infectious until this mammoth of a record with the vocals shifting from subdued whispers to uncontrollable hysteria, guitars forming an intense layered texture, and rhythm section sustaining a heavy flow with suffocating atmosphere, while faster old school blastbeat moments are traditionally included at random order into a monumental funeral mood as well; triple black vinyl edition, housed in a threefold jacket with a double-sided cardstock insert, is limited to 850 hand-numbered units, copy #777