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Fall Of The Grey-Winged One - Aeons Of Dreams
Self financed, 2002
3 tracks, 64:06 playing length
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A monstrous one piece droning beast hailing from Belgium, three tracks of despair filled funeral doom and dark ambience.
Emotional and yet starkly emotionless at the same time teasing me with glimpses of cold light that remains unobtainable as
the overpowering drones drag me screaming back into the darkness.
Hate Me - The first song/physical assault is a dark journey through an empty place devoid of hope, powerful droning noise that
stops all thought with intermitant pounding drums that take me away to a barren primordial place.
After the first few minutes I cannot help but be sucked in as the monstrous nothingness drags me to this lifeless place of
despair and loathing. A trully mind numbing experience of otherworldly magnatude.
Aeons of Dreams - This track creeps in like a half forgotten recurring nightmare, more almost sub sonic drones that might
once have been guitars twisted almost beyond recognition pin me to my seat in a catatonic state.
After the first few minutes the whole thing is offset by what I think is either delayed violin or accoustic guitar that has a
rather haunting feel to it which is strangely beautiful.
A hint of a ray of light in the dark place? a glimpse of what might have been?
All hope is quickly drained as the twisted drones again invade and pin me helplessly to my seat.
Synth swells, almost clean delayed bass (though it might be a synth) that again hint of brief mournful glimpses of light showing a
slightly different edge to FOTGWO. All eventually beaten back down by the inescapable timeless drones, though towards the end it
shows slightly more of a kind of dark ambient style though still in constant warfare with the mighty drones.
A monstrous droning masterpiece of minimalistic doom which at almost 42 minutes is longer than most albums, the kind of song you
either love or run screaming in terror from. Myself I could listen to this forever.
Locked - At only 9 minutes long this track seems rather short compared to the others. It comes in with pounding drums and yet
more droning noise though the drums seem to take over, pounding their tribal dirge and the drones take a back seat for a while.
Just at the point where I was thinking "this isnt too different to the first song" the drones return devastatingly with some
spooky sounding violin (i think!) backing them, offsetting the whole thing magnificently.
By far the most rythmical and structured song on the cd with distorted almost drum patterns and the closest thing to a
recognizable guitar riff yet.
This takes nothing from the epic menacing feel of FOTGWO in fact it adds a rather mysterious and grand layer and makes this
track trully stand out, showing that funeral doom has more power than any kind of extreme metal and yet comes across as way
more genuine than most metal or dark ambient music these days.
To sum it all up, some of the best underground funeral doom I have heard yet. No, I take that back, some of the best funeral
doom Ive heard underground or whatever. This brings new meaning to the words slow and heavy.
If you like catchy choruses or nu-metal I'd listen to something else but if bands like Sunno))) and Earth are your
thing and like me, you enjoy being crushed under a sea of mind destroying drones then this cd is one you simply must hear.
Fear of a doom metal planet!
Guest-review, written 31/10/2002 by
S.P. White.
Web site :
http://listen.to/udom
Email : deathforsaken@hotmail.com
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