Release
date: May
24th
2019.
Label: Argpnauta
Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl
Mors
Aeterna – Tracklisting
1.Overture
Putrefactio 01:05
2.Dissolution
07:42
3.Afterlife
05:02
4.The
Unknown 01:32
5.Falling
Star 06:00
6.Burning
Darkness 06:03
7.Pralaya's
Hymn 02:05
8.Loving
the Void 05:39
9.Into
the Abyss 01:32
10.Eternal
Death 07:44
Members
Steve
Colca: guitar/vocals
Keegan
Kjeldsen: guitar
Penny
Turner: drums
Nick
Coffman: Bass.
Review
Mors
Aeterna is the 3rd full length album from Texas
Doom/Sludge Metallers – Destroyer Of Light – and the band have
evolved their music into a more creepier and theatrical style of
music. This allows the band to create perhaps their most enjoyable
and riffiest album to date. Taking influence from a wide range of
different Doom/Heavy Metal bands over the last 40 years whilst
remaining true to their own original ideas.
This
album is a gloomy exercise in how to create a pitch perfect Doom
Metal album that has a captivating story behind the album. The album
is about a man who dies and lives in eternal damnation in HELL itself
for all eternity. And what is more DOOM METAL than that cool concept.
The album has quite an emotional impact as the band sing about grief,
loss, pain and forgiveness despite the individual being stuck in a
never-ending cycle of living the same painful experiences over and
over again.
Destroyer
Of Light deserve credit for creating an emotional and hard-hitting
album such as this. The music is another highlight with the band
drawing upon influences as diverse as Black Sabbath, Merciful Fate
and Electric Wizard. So expect some down-tempo Doom/Sludge Metal
sounds throughout the entire album with songs such as Dissolution,
Afterlife, Falling Star, Burning Darkness and Eternal Death being the
best songs contained on the album.
The
main reason why Mors Aeterna works superbly well is the journey it
takes the listener on from start to finish. Steve Colca relishes his role as the narrator within this FUCKED UP and GLOOMY
UNDERWORLD the band create for this album. All of the songs have
similar structures to each other but still sound vastly different to
each other as well.
Mors
Aeterna is a throwback to the classic Doom Metal albums from the
1970s and 1980s but one that still offers a more modern sound with
elements of Sludge/Stoner Metal appearing here and there. Overall,
Mors Aeterna is perhaps one of the best sounding Doom Metal albums
you’ll likely to hear or experience this year and leaves you
wanting more.
Excellent
and Highly Recommended.
Words
by Steve Howe
Thanks
to Mona at All Noir PR for the promo. Mors Aeterna is available to
buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via Argonauta Records.
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