The Funereal EP, a lament by – Funeral!

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Ô Solitude, Ô Eternal Misery!

Didn’t get enough doom ‘n’ gloom from the news lately? Well, we’re happy to serve you a large portion of tribulation and woe with your breakfast cereal today. Funeral famously appeared on our radar with their 2024 piece Gospel of Bones that made quite a dent in our obsidian, tear-drenched wastes of melancholy central. A band that – allegedly – gets its lyrics from a psychologist. A disturbing thought, if you think about it. They’re supposed to help people, not wallow in grief themselves.

But the fact is, their newest blurb, The Funereal EP, … [...] Click to raid more!

Iotunn – Access All Worlds (2021) – Review

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This is one of those records. You commence on them with no major expectations. But then, this thing starts to fascinate you. And you didn’t expect to waste quite so much time on its innards. But there you are, headphones glued to yer head despite yerself.

In other words, the reviewer’s mighty crystal ball usually won’t work out as expected.1 Because you’ll only find out what’s really in it, once you let ‘yet another metal piece’ roar out of your music machine.

And contrite RMR is also somewhat embarrassed. It took us way too long to finally pay some … [...] Click to raid more!