Highgate - Survival
47 mins 26 secs run time over three tracks….yes typical doom! This is good doom though that I liken to Serpent Venom and Witchsorrow to name some recent trail blazers in this respective genre. You hear the traditional elements in the music, but the vocals sound rather nasty, harsh if you will. With arrangements that are damn rewarding in accompaniment to the terrifying doom of the apocalypse portrayed, there is a undercurrent, a sinister underbelly of a slightly blackened edge, a big bonus. Musically you don’t get bored with the tunes that to be fair are excessively long in duration that may lead to misconceptions of their comparison with the likes of Khanate. Ok, they do embody of sludgy element on ‘Mother Abyss’ but this is not the full picture. There is certainly more to this music than feedback and single note bass lines.
For me it is the quality of the arrangements that gives all positive markers on this release, quirky little pieces of music that is buried under a tirade of powerful depressive authentic doom. ‘Survival’ breathes a touch of emotion, aggression and all in between such that the guitar tone and drum behemoth is something that certainly rattles the cages and will shakes a glass house apart in a matter of seconds.
All in all, this musical chalice will endure many hours of playback with most doom lovers, there is a touch of dirty sludge, a touch of classic doom but an atmosphere that really gels this band together from which the results are truly presented as a benchmark for others to follow.
For me it is the quality of the arrangements that gives all positive markers on this release, quirky little pieces of music that is buried under a tirade of powerful depressive authentic doom. ‘Survival’ breathes a touch of emotion, aggression and all in between such that the guitar tone and drum behemoth is something that certainly rattles the cages and will shakes a glass house apart in a matter of seconds.
All in all, this musical chalice will endure many hours of playback with most doom lovers, there is a touch of dirty sludge, a touch of classic doom but an atmosphere that really gels this band together from which the results are truly presented as a benchmark for others to follow.
- Mother Abyss
- There Will Never Be Light Again
- Survival
