Release
date: May 27th
2016. Label: The Church Within Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Gates
Of Flesh – Tracklisting
1.
Birth of Wine
2.
The Green Man
3.
A Shadow of Myself
4.
Breaking the Circle
5.
Accidents
6.
A Woman Out of Snow
7.
Leper, Leper
Review:
This
album is traditional, majestic doom with a professional production
containing music made by a band with extreme confidence in their
creativity, construction and delivery. The band is comprised of
devoted doom personnel who pay tribute to their influences by staying
the melancholic course while bearing their own identifying mark of
gloom. The album is full of purposeful song structures, passionate
guitar solos, and powerful vocals. This is music for those who enjoy
spoonfuls of soggy breakfast flakes submerged in a bowl of black bile
all while watching the rivulets of rain stream the down dirty windows
of their lonely house. Add this band to your collection of Count
Raven, Reverend Bizarre and Seamount.
This
band and album reverberates everything that makes doom a great genre.
This is why we all love doom. Now to the individual songs...
Birth
Of Wine - This song is slow and serpent like, weaving in and out of
stride with guitar, bass and drums honed and hiked with customary
doom. The haunting vocals oscillate between sugar and salt, all
complimenting a story to tell. This song undulates and whips.
The
Green Man - Are you ready? This is classic doom that stirs your
mollusk colored heart. From start to finish, this represents the
essential ingredients that are mindfully arranged on the top of the
cornucopia of why I listen to this type of music.
A
Shadow Of Myself - An instrumental portrayal of your own ghost which
is an introduction to the next song.
Breaking
The Circle - I had a dream. I saw myself run through the house, round
up the poison, pound down the cellar door, tear open the earth and
stuff the well with maniac mirth. This songs swings like a pendulum
over the gothic pit. Great stuff.
Accidents
- A track of rhythm coupled with heavy weight testimonial rock.
A
Woman Out Of Snow - This song is a thumping affair, bookended with
the delicateness of an angel's dirty wings.
Leper,
Leper - This song captures shimmering cymbals like broken mirrors,
hallowed drums from dead wood stumps, distorted guitars shooting
forgotten flame, and vocals pleading with their truth chords and the
aural sacrifice in sharing sonic lung disease. Is it peeling skin or
just shedding scales? Are you dying or being reborn? Maybe you should
stop worrying because maybe it is the same thing.
This
is album is a goat's horn full of lavish doom and slither gloom. Bow
your head, for this is not the dead hum we hear from the ever growing
legion of doom. These acts of contrition are welcomed and stand out
from the throng of those still swampy behind their doom purple ears,
those who are willingly baptized in the rain of doom should heed and
learn from these shapemasters of the dark. This is doom done as it
was meant to be...a ghoulish journey into graven sound.
Words
by Nick Palmisano
Gates
Of Flesh will be available to buy via The Church Within Records from May 27th 2016.
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