EVOKEN

Release Year: 2011
Artist Origin: USA
Style: mournful funeral doom death metal

funeral doom progenitors were among the first wave of US doom/death metal bands, and it took them four years to concoct and perfect the astonishingly heavy dirges of this gargantuan third full-length [2005], but the ultimate dark esotericism that lies behind its twisted imagination, redefining the unplumbed depths of the universal doom trench, was all worth it - utterly lightless, oppressive claustrophobia is carved out of its songs' cyclopean husks, building upon the atmospheric foundations of their earlier material, presenting a more refined exploration of funeral genre with meticulously layered, dissonant and crushing guitar tones, dense, ambient passages, and contrasting deep growls with occasional mournful clean vocals; recent British re-issue comes with a previously unreleased Coveting Elysium track from promo 2002 as bonus