Cenotaph (MX)
Riding Our Black Oceans


4.0
excellent

Review

by ValenDreth USER (63 Reviews)
November 11th, 2021 | 57 replies


Release Date: 1994 | Tracklist


An epic melodic tour de force of power. While the first Cenotaph album certainly crushed hard and was a tour de force in its own right, Cenotaph's second album Riding Our Black Oceans is a whole different type of onslaught. There are many types of onslaughts, and some can be more melodic. This also has the doomy vibes of the first one but with more finesse and sensitivity. The vocals here provide a tour de force of emotion, rare for death metal. While the debut was impersonal yet powerful, this one speaks to your soul while remaining still an onslaught of power.

This is a worth tour de force of powerful riffs and emotion for fans of early At The Gates before they became bitches, and other melo-doom-blackened-tech bizarro world music that the true freaks of the headbanger world can appreciate while their colleagues slam their heads into the wall to the latest Cannibal Corpse rehash. No disrespect to that amazing band, but this is an album that transports me to its album cover. I am sailing on an ocean of doom, but my boat loses control and we are now speeding like a freight train on meth. Blaine the Monorail just smoked meth and he is listening to Cenotaph's Riding Our Black Oceans as he goes crazy.



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user ratings (31)
3.7
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Hyperion1001
Emeritus
November 11th 2021


25741 Comments


killer band

these guys just played atl and i missed it because im a stupid idiot

sonictheplumber
November 11th 2021


17533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

sadly they didnt do anything off this one

pissbore
November 11th 2021


12778 Comments


faith

BallsToTheWall
November 11th 2021


51216 Comments


Slaughter of the Soul, all day!

JokineAugustus
November 11th 2021


10938 Comments


I liked the album before this. Ill give this a listen soon

bloc
November 12th 2021


69987 Comments


Gloomy rules, but that's the only one I've heard. I'll have to check this out. I think I kept writing it off because of the lame artwork

sonictheplumber
November 12th 2021


17533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

its way different but youll love it if you like the first chasm record, first at the gates, etc

Source
November 13th 2021


19917 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

swear this had a review

GhandhiLion
November 21st 2021


17641 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ay this finally got a review

parksungjoon
February 8th 2022


47231 Comments


so which one of you is this

Casavir
February 8th 2022


5644 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Awesome album, likely my favorite of theirs.

GhandhiLion
March 25th 2022


17641 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

the best

Space Jester
March 25th 2022


10992 Comments


Hell yea album owns

GhandhiLion
March 26th 2022


17641 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

mfw Soul Profundis

combustion07
April 14th 2022


12822 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Damn cheers for the rec parks. Loving this one so I'm pumped to check the follow up. Night and day difference between this and the debut but I can dig it. Love how they basically switched everything up aside from the bass sitting way high up in the mix. It works extremely well for this style

GhandhiLion
April 27th 2022


17641 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

https://www.invisibleoranges.com/mexican-death-metal-primer/



good read on mexican dm.

Casavir
January 27th 2023


5644 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Julio Viterbo's guitarwork is incredible

GhandhiLion
January 27th 2023


17641 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

For sure man. This album is so underated.

Casavir
January 27th 2023


5644 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, this is pretty much my preferred take on this sound too.

combustion07
January 27th 2023


12822 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Album rules majorly



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