Tim McLelland
I like how the vocalist is a little lower than the usual shrieks you get with this kind of stuff. Quality production too. Rare clean vocals are also excellent. Good stuff!
Favorite track: Le Fantôme et le Mortel (Cantiques Funèbres).
Metallurgical Fire
The drum programming here does not put me off too much. The guitar work is good. Good ice cold but beautiful riffing. Keyboards seem somewhat out of place at times but overall this is pretty solid French black metal.
Favorite track: St Jean de la Porte (Cantiques Funèbres).
Sorrowful indeed. Utterly beautiful blackened doom metal with melody that draws out a cathartic release. Its works like these that have me believe what Schopenhauer said about music was true, that it speaks truth to what is at our most core. Camel
Murky, bottom-heavy doomy metal that sucks you in and swallows you up. I love how the album moves from swamp as metaphor for the self-delusions that hold us back to bogs and the ancient remains they conceal within as pathways to deeper, terrifying spiritual awakenings that reveal the primeval horrors that lurk just at the edges of our consciousness. Dave Aftandilian