Thou Shell Of Death
Sepulchral Silence
Talheim Records
Debut album of this Estonian band offers music that is modest instrumentally and monotonic (it`s just how they do it). The style of the band is spherically very doomy, eerie (keyboards), slow, and overall very abyss/atmospheric. Dark ambience creeps in long, monumentally written songs. Album feature growl/shriek type of vocals where words from a singer gravitate in space, same as the riffs of the band. Heavy guitar tone creates a stone-wall of sound, but it was only few times where guitars were in a spot light, where I felt better creativity from the band. It`s ominous atmosphere of music that freezes the blood in the veins, as this entire album possesses some kind of fiendish quality, something unsettling an inner-being in you body, which kind of make me curious about all of those mysteriously crafted keyboard music ideas in songs of Thou Shell Of Death, which spread some sonic-horrors. Of course, it`s still very metal album, originating from primitive death/doom and black metal genres where tempo of songs is up slow.
Songs of the band are time-suckers – sometimes, I let my mind fly away, with a flow of the music where it does not felt safe at all but strangely good, sometimes that times were longing forever, because, when comes to music itself and the pace of songs, there are only very slight changes the band did.
Production of the album is decent and it`s not a bad album musically – but only if you accept repetitive music patterns, only then you can dive into those songs where wheels of torment will swallow like if you never existed...
Songs of the band are time-suckers – sometimes, I let my mind fly away, with a flow of the music where it does not felt safe at all but strangely good, sometimes that times were longing forever, because, when comes to music itself and the pace of songs, there are only very slight changes the band did.
Production of the album is decent and it`s not a bad album musically – but only if you accept repetitive music patterns, only then you can dive into those songs where wheels of torment will swallow like if you never existed...
Tracklist:
1 The Night-Wind
2 Her Vivien Eyes
3 The Wind Of Winter
4 The Wood Water
5 Rose Leaves When The Rose Is Dead - Part I
1 The Night-Wind
2 Her Vivien Eyes
3 The Wind Of Winter
4 The Wood Water
5 Rose Leaves When The Rose Is Dead - Part I
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 26.08.2020
Added: 26.08.2020