FUNERAL

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

one may argue if funeral doom metal term has appeared along this entity from Norway, moreover that their music is better described as dark and poetic doom/death, involving serene female vocals and acoustic interludes along that dead ferocious growling - exactly this approach was cultivated in early years, and they were far from the only band of this kind around with Paradigma and The 3rd and The Mortal paving in similar direction, while this historical full-length debut [1995] epitomizes full of diversity era via desolate melancholic flow and lengthy tracks, reflecting on painful and torturing loneliness, achieved not only by rigid metal means, but also by subtle otherworldly vibe; recent French digipak edition comes with extensive liner notes in the booklet and two rare bonuses, one of them is recorded live in 1995