Album Rating: 3.0

Ahab is the best funeral doom going. Bereft made my second-favorite album in the genre behind "Wretched Sea."



https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLINesDgSwsOoBaxcs9dbSoO5z66j8uXyl

Album Rating: 4.7

Ahab is really good, but I wouldn't say they're anywhere near best funeral doom. At least for me.

Album Rating: 3.0

Aye but ye be a lubber, and nary worth yer salt. A scurvy nave is he who sullies the capn's name.

Album Rating: 4.5

Considering seeing these guys next month on tour. I wonder if they'll play this from start to finish?

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Never really checked Ahab.

Album Rating: 3.5

They're not particularly interesting

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

what i really want is artists like Encoffination that arent so mediocre.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Pulling up a genre description: "The music of slowcore artists is generally characterized by downbeat melodies, slower tempos and minimalist arrangements."



The passages with singing from 48 mins onwards sound a lot like your typical Low song. The indie influence over those segments of the album are clear.

Album Rating: 3.0

Have a Hammond ever sounded so heavy?

your argument doesn't make sense. the artist intent you suggest ("they're simply doing what instrumentally they can do live and what makes sense at a quiet point in the record") doesn't change anything about the sonic aesthetic of that segment, which is best described as slowcore. genres aren't determined by the intent or the means of the artist.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

sonic aesthetic isn't influence, and your genre descriptor of slowcore that you copy/pasted could describe 99% of funeral doom in its entirety. they just played guitar slow for a segment. i'm not saying a funeral doom band can't draw influence from indie backgrounds, simply that given the context of this band simply playing from means of instrumentally being a two-piece there isn't enough evidence to say they're they're post-rock and slowcore influenced because they played guitar slow in a genre that is already categorized with slow tempos and downbeat melodies.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

tbh half way through typing that i realized how pointless this distinction is anyway

the morose singing in those segments also perfectly matches what you'd expect from slowcore (and what you wouldn't associate with funeral doom). don't think it's a stretch to say they've heard red house painters or low and thought "hey we can do something like that here"

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

we'll never really know, but i don't think it's in any way a contribution to the substantiation of calling this the next 'sunbather'.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

dude, there is no slowcore here...the second track, for example, is even more minimal than a slowcore band. slowcore is a form of indie rock, there is zero indie rock in this. theres zero rock in this album at all. theyre miles apart aesthetically. i mean, are you gonna say theres some melodeath in here too because of some of the melodic leads?

Album Rating: 5.0

Obviously this is radiohead influenced since the singer has vulnerabilty and reverb and relies on cryptic lyrics to get a point accross about death



edit : but seriously though Lucid I'm not very convinced by your arguments, the genre description you pulled out for slowcore could just as much be the one for doom. You can't really boil down a genre this easily especially when you're comparing two genres who have such radically different backgrounds and who overall just don't vibe the same way.

Album Rating: 5.0

Also



"genres aren't determined by the intent or the means of the artist"



Yes they are it's called marketing

just to clarify, a mirror reaper is someone who plants and harvests mirrors, right?


metal's dumb word randomizers are still in full action, i see..

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Relatives In Descent

that just means when your auntie goes down on you, what's the problem?