FALL OF THE IDOLS — The Séance (review)

FALL OF THE IDOLS — The Séance album cover Album · 2008 · Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Fall of the Idols play a crushing, desolate form of Doom Metal. The tempos crawl, the guitars flatten everything they encounter, the clean vocals moan in travail and the drums are pure thunder. I'm tempted to mention Reverend Bizarre here, but Fall of the Idols is more ambient and cavernous in thier sound...it's probably all the reverb.

Opening track 'Nosophoros' is absolutely massive and truly sets the tone for the CD. It's tempo drags along like a behemoth dragging its dead prey over jagged rocks. 'At The Birth Of The Human Shadow' calls to mind a bit of Cathedral as it turns up the tempo just a touch and adds a bouncing groove. 'Cathedral Of Doom' comes across like a morbid funeral procession; twisted and sad all at once. Every track bears the characteristics of our beloved genre and flow seamlessly together forming a singular journey into deeper despair.

Of all the bands playing pure Doom Metal these days, Fall of the Idols stands head and shoulders above many. These guys are the genuine article and 'The Séance' is not to be passed up.
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