Here we have a moody and darkly melodic piece of gloomy doom/death. Italy seems to do that whole melody thing quite well and Funereum are no exception.
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Plus a bonus Iron Maiden cover! New spin on "Phantom Of The Opera" that almost sounds like original material! Keyboards add that melodic tinge that clashes in the best way possible with the scratchy sounds of the other instruments for a unique sound.
The demo centers around a rough-around-the-edges production with gritty harsh vocals keeping up with the harsh guitar tuning, and even the melodic solos retain that raspy sound. Every instrument and vocal matches and complements each other, leading to a well thought-out structure that perfectly suits the music being played. But even then it's not done! Once that first riff shattered through at around 3 minutes, my jaw dropped at the raw emotion and melody on display. The first song starts out with some tribal chanting/didgeridoo-sounding atmospherics (gee, never thought I'd be able to mention a didgeridoo in metal!) and slowly transitions into rhythmic pounding, keyboards, and finally guitars.
I've had this on rotation quite a bit recently, so please allow me to share the wealth! It's always good to see old bands close to home- I can almost reach out and touch these guys! Well, if my arms were 200 miles long, but hey, close enough. The cover art is that of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker", and again, very fitting as this is the kind of music you sit still in a dark room and listen to as you ponder life's unknowns. A lone guitar lead drones on, accompanied by an eerie echo of a double bass. The production is stiff and stuffy quite fitting with this style of music, fortunately. Hopeless grief and death surround you, but the music plods on. Very slow and deliberate, like trudging through impossibly dark caverns unknown. Hell, I'd go as far as to call this funeral doom metal. Complete and utter doom and gloom follows. The demo opens with a bit of a cheery flute intro, almost in a folk metal vein. I'm uploading this because it seems to be a bit of rarity, and with all the recent Mediafire takedowns across the internet, it can't hurt to have a few more links of obscure material out there. It's a shame they're set so far back in the mix, though. "Hunger For Blood" has some incredible tremolo riffing throughout and for the most part, the riffs are pretty damn catchy. We've also got some mediocre clean vocals thrown in, but it's the guitar work that makes the demo. Not sure the best way to describe the vocals beyond that it sounds as if he's straining like he is going to blow a blood vessel or something. It's trying to be death metal, it really is, but what we're left with in the end is Death Metal Lite TM. So this is me keeping it alive!Īs hinted in the genre descriptor, this one's got a melodic fringe to it. Started off as Apostate and is now Godskill and still hasn't produced much in the past years, so who knows where this project is right now. Here's another band I don't see much around the nets.
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