If you’re stuck in the deepest recesses of the vile metal underground, a review of the likes of Oceans of Slumber won’t work too well. Sometimes the RMR crew has trouble emerging from the sumpy vile grip of metal’s underbelly into the lighter areas of the metal multiverse. After all, once the daemons swirling around down there have their fiery claws in your unblemished flesh, it’s difficult to dislodge yourself from their dark siren song. Thus, the band’s newest epos Where Gods Fear to Speak had to wait until we were detached enough again to take on a progressively challenged