FUNERAL

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: dark depressive mournful doom metal

the missing link in an extensive saga of historical Norwegian entity in mournful doom/death metal is based on unreleased demo recordings dating back to 1996, or the era after the debut album, when they intended to transfer their gloomy music to a new level via recording it with legendary producer Robert "Mags" Magoolagan at Academy Studio in Dewsbury, UK - back in time things were not rolling as planned so it was not properly finished, missing the vocals and what not, so nine cuts remained unreleased up until now, with additional features added later, while its music finds a remarkable balance between cavernous profound underground sound of early years and much more atmospheric direction developed further on, crowned by unmistakable somber and desolate clean vocalization; recent French digipak edition comes with extensive liner notes in twelve page booklet and demo version of The Swansong of My Heart as bonus