EVOKEN

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

cult second opus [2001] of crushing funeral doom/death metal grand dukes from New Jersey jumps on poor ears of unprepared listener with all the weight of the world via unbearably heavy guitars in a very slow, ceremonial pace and painfully depressing manner dictated by John Paradiso's grunts - regardless that stylistically these seven cuts are following the well known pattern of this sunless genre, it is almost perfect soundtrack to your despair hours, also featuring Numinas [Krohm] on keyboards, while album layout was honed by Stephen O'Malley [Sunn O)))]; finally a British re-issue of quite a rare album comes with two obscure bonuses - instrumental from 2004 and rehearsal track from 1992, still as Funereus