LYCUS Tempest LP DYING MOSS GREEN pulverizing deathdoom thou asunder evoken NEW

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LYCUS Tempest (DYING MOSS GREEN EDITION) LP

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(20 Buck Spin)
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      This is a new 2015 vinyl repress on "dying moss green" colored vinyl from 20 Buck Spin...
      Along with that new Eibon album that we just got in, Tempest, the first official full-length album from Oakland, California deathcrawlers Lycus is one of the best funeral/death doom albums of recent memory, a follow up to the band's Demo MMXI that had been given a vinyl reissue treatment on Flenser a while back. As good as that demo was, Tempest is a real stunner, combining agonizing slow and heavy riffage and glacial tempos with brief moments of lacerating black metal and soaring, striking melodies that manage to remind me a little of Louisiana doom metallers Thou. Lycus unleash a monolithic heaviness all their own, though, and the three songs that make up this album are vast, monstrous eruptions of metallic mournfulness that move through fields of bone-crushing gravitational pull, and which seem to seep with an atmosphere of almost suffocating loss and regret, the music imbued with a deep emotional resonance that elevates this way beyond most other bands who are trying to perfect this sound.
      Opener "Coma Burn" slowly and agonizingly unfolds it's vast black wings for nearly twelve minutes, at first laying down a monstrous, pressurized funereal doom riff layered with sour, miserable melodies and gaseous, guttural roars, but as it slowly expands, the sorrowful weeping of violins begin to drift in from afar, the mournful strings blending with the torturous, bone-crushing heaviness, creating a surreal sonic atmosphere. That weird ambience becomes a signature part of Tempets's sound, as strange moaning vocals drift across the background, and some of the lead guitars take on a sickly, dissonant, blackened feel that at times reminds me of some of Xasthur's off-kilter guitar dread. When Lycus suddenly kicks into higher gear later in the song, the creeping glacial doom shifts abruptly into alternating bursts of blastbeat-driven black metal violence and more mid-paced metallic grooves, giving this a cool dynamic quality that no doiubt takes some of its inspiration from the music of deathdoom pioneers Disembowelment. Lycus's melodic craftsmanship on this album is superb; the guitarists unleash those soaring melodic leads and achingly mournful hooks, the song shot through with moments of dark beauty, and they also use some sort of synthesizer sound to create an almost saxophone-like melody that also appears at different point throughout the album. On "Engravings", Lycus likewise employ some intensely moving major-key melodies that transform their dour sound into something strangely and unexpectedly hopeful, even if that hope really is for little more than the annihilation of the self; the song uncoils around more of the bands huge down-tuned heaviness, riding on waves of rumbling double-bass drumming, then slips into some brief passages of dreamy, almost 4AD-style guitar gloom.
      By the time the band reaches the title track, both those dreamy, lilting, chorus-drenched guitars and the gorgeous violins from the first track reappear, spreading out across the entire second half of the album. Another sprawling, crawling wave of slow-motion power, "Tempest" blooms with more of those amazing funereal melodies, rising over more churning, glacial guitars, and it's on this song that Lycus really cut loose with the powerful clean vocals, as deep male singing suddenly sweeps in, an almost liturgical chant that echoes just beneath the roaring death metal vocals, while the music grows even more majestic and mysterious. Deeper in, the band surges into more off-kilter negative grooves and sudden eruptions into blasting dissonant black metal, and eventually all of this gives way to the last eight minutes of the song that transforms into a field of swirling electronic ambience, vaguely resembling a more funereal version of Troum's rumbling dronescapes.
      Stunning stuff, and absolutely recommended to anyone into the likes of Samothrace, Thou, Asunder, Mournful Congregation and Pallbearer, easily one of the best new deathdoom albums you're going to hear this year. Features gorgeously evil album artwork from Paolo Girardi.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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