My Silent Wake – Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief (2024) – Review

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Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief. For a moment, the RMR crew was afraid that Rise to the Sky had awoken yet again with another round of endless noisy sorrow. Catalán is famous for bolstering his croaky doom with such headlines after all.

But fear naught, we’re dealing with Ian Arkley‘s My Silent Wake. A band that has been as versatile as it has become consistent on this zine. Doom ‘n’ gloom is their daily tear-drenched bread, true. But the records RMR covered to date were never really cut from the same cloth. Let’s face it, Gothic … [...] Click to raid more!

Elderseer – Drown in the Shallowness (2023) – Review

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Elderseer. Never heard of them, I declare. And how could we? The band saw the light of day in 2017 and only released one first EP way back in 2018. And some five years later, the band’s debut Drown in the Shallowness lets us have a go at their kinda belated first issue.

So, let’s don our cilice and – head over to sadboi country. A new record pregnant with potent doom-laden offerings awaits our inspection, we’re told. Just let me grab the tissues and that crusty whip before we head down there. Tearful flagellation time.


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My Silent Wake – There Was Death (2018) – Review

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Once desolation and doom in metal takes your fancy, you probably need to look no further than My Silent Wake. Former works like Damnatio Memoriae were already right up there with the likes of My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost. Or with a dramatically less meaty version of outfits like Loathfinder.

Yet, the band’s gothically tainted, painfully bleak, and barebone approach to Doom Death Metal always allowed them to carve out their very own niche in this genre.

Then again – never shy of experiments – Ian Arkley launched himself into Invitiation to Imperfection in 2017. A [...] Click to raid more!

Et Moriemur – Ex Nihilo In Nihilum (2014 / 2016) – Review

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Sometimes records sit in the review pipe for no good reason for a very long time. And get passed over time and time again, just to be rediscovered more by accident than by design. This so happened with the Dying Ones from the Czech Republic.

In 2014 Et Moriemur unleashed a pretty underrated Doom Metal album called Ex Nihilo In Nihilum. Just to get a re-issue very late in 2016 by Minotauro Records.

So, why feature this album on the blog now, so very long after the fact?

First, because they are good at what they do. There is … [...] Click to raid more!