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Review Summary: DIY doom To be Honest with you, I’m not an expert on death-doom or funeral doom - or any type of doom, but I can pin-point or not if it’s doom or not. That being said, I also can tell how great an album is after listening to a fair share of trve metal records over the years. So who is Samothrace? Well, Samothrace consists of members who are respected in their local Punk/Hardcore/Metal scenes, which range from New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma, but are currently based in Seattle, WA. So when you mix different forms of punk and other variety of metal influences – you somehow or other get death/funeral/sludge/stoner doom mesh. With all of these influences combined, we get a standout album that can be regarded as a competitor within the doom community.
Basically, Reverence to Stone is a crushing journey from the start to finish. Though it does have fluctuations throughout the album that can even be considered not “crushing”- especially the very beginning of the first song, and other bridges similar in the very middle of the album, or even the melodic pentatonic solos and melodies which drives for a specific type of atmosphere that combines depression with a psychedelic/stoner tone. But that doesn’t evade it from having low-tuned distorted guitars that carry on through the album being played as a whole note for eight measures in an adagissimo tone, but that’s just typical and dead given for doom. While the second, and last song, spans for twenty minutes we still see Samothrace crush your face with an immense power. But, “A Horse Of Our Own” compares highly differently to the album opener, “When We Emerged”. Yes, they do have the same characteristics; they’re just spread out differently and expanded in many different ways on their own. After listening to the album a few times, though it does sound like one big song, but there is an atmosphere that completely differs from one to another. It is an atmosphere that is too hard to explain with words, yet frequent death-doom listeners will understand the album’s atmospheric meaning.
All in all, Reverence to Stone is a must have for death-doom fans, because this is an album that could reach top tier status. Even though it clocks in very close to 35 minutes, Reverence to Stone still shows us their intentions on a high standard with concise musicianship.
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Past all the trials and tribulations ‘Reverence To Stone’ needs a sense of patience to be accept...
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Album Rating: 4.0
I know it's a short review, blah blah tell me if I need to fix something, and constructive criticism is welcomed.
the album can be streamed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8HtfhPhkPw
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I'm curious to know how the band decided to be named "Samothrace", although I already have a pretty good idea since they are a funeral doom band...
Edit:
And my suspicion was correct...
Quoting from metal archives - http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Samothrace/107812
The band is named after a Greek island that is the home of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, a site of important Hellenic and pre-Hellenic religious ceremonies. The most famous artifact from this site is a large, half-crumbled statue of Nike, the goddess of victory in ancient Greek mythology.
Thank god some people know that Ancient Greece is not only about light, but it is about darkness as well...
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yeah, especially when Neptune raped Medusa.
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Not only that.
The oracles of Samothrace organized annual celebrations to honor Hades, Demetra, Persephone and Hera.
Along with the Eleusinian Mysteries, these celebrations were dark and not much is really known about them...
Kings from the Hellenic city-states went to Samothrace to be blessed by those oracles.
I will check this band for sure.
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you gotta check this band out! they're kvlt!
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The latter half of your second sentence reads a bit awkward. But maybe that's just me. Other than that nice review. I've been looking forward to this release.
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"Feature this now"
go ask man, see if the mods will grant a feature.
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"The latter half of your second sentence reads a bit awkward. But maybe that's just me. Other than that nice review. I've been looking forward to this release."
i saw what you meant, and fixed it.
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review is short but pos and good album
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cool beans
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
after listening to it 5 times over i realized how kvlt it was.
this and Worm Ouroboros are definitely making top 25
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dude I'm digging it. aoty
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the solo on Lethean was so badass, I seriously thought I was listening to something off of Bloodbath's second album.
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After one listen this was ok but nothing really special IMO. IDK just kinda sounds like most other funeral doom / sludge / post metal stuff or whatever to me. Wasnt bad. Had some riffs that I grooved too, but was also pretty boring in spots.
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Yea the best part was the groovy ass riff in the middle of the first song but nothing else really stood out. Seems like run of the mill stuff to me.
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I did write this in the morning, I wouldn't be too surprised if I herped and derped somewhere.... i probably should proof read it....
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haha dude it's not like I'm staff or anything that rages over the slightest grammar detail.
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
the only who can get away with bad grammar is kill we all know this.
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Life's Trade fucking ruled, so now I'm wondering how this compares.
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Yeah, I checked out the album after seeing this review. It's pretty awesome, just not Life's Trade awesome.
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