Release Date: May 02nd 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD
Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island - Tracklisting
1.Concussion Dream 02:49
2.The End Of The Wide Awake Nightmare 04:04
3.Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale 15:22
4.The Doomsday Zealot Of Amnesia Island 04:08
5.Lysergic Liturgies Of A Schizo Messiah 02:29
6.D. I. E. Sect 08:53
7.The Science Of Slow Moving Monsters 06:52
8.Temple Of Thieves 05:16
Members:
Jason O'Donnell - Vocals, Guitar, Bass & Synth
Feederwire - Sound Design & Additional Guitars on Submerged...
Eric Plonka - Additional Guitars on Temple Of Thieves and D. I. E. Sect
Kellii Scott - Drums
Pete Grossmann - Synth on Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale
Review
Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island is the latest album from Progressive/Psych Doom Metallers BEWARE OF GODS and it’s beautifully weird as much as it is musically complex with the band creating a heavy and uncompromising style of music. BEWARE OF GODS is mainly the work of Jason O’Donnell who is joined on the record by the likes of Feederwire, Eric Plonka, Kellii Scott and Pete Grossmann on different parts of the album.
This has an experimental Post-Doom and Post-Metal theme at its creative core with foreboding Progressive instrumental passages that draw inspiration from the Industrial Rock/Metal world. There’s a mysterious Electronica and Sludgy guitar movement with Jason’s twisted vocals moving between clean vocals and harsh growls that come alive within the excellent second track The End Of The Wide Awake Nightmare. Surreal and nightmarish soundscapes blend Ambient textures and sullen heavy instrumental sounds that keep up with the Industrial and Electronic based sounds, glitches and beats that never feel out of place.
The standout track has to be the brilliantly titled third track Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale which feels inspired by the likes of NEUROSIS, ISIS and AUTHOR & PUNISHER. The Post-Doom surroundings transform into a progressive style of Post-Metal with massive amounts of gloomy Psychedelics allowing the band to align themselves closer to the DOOM & GLOOM world that TYPE O NEGATIVE made their names with. The song runs past the fifteen minutes mark with BEWARE OF GODS playing multiple different styles of Post-Doom and Sludge Metal where you can hear traces of Alt Metal and Grunge which I didn’t expect at all.
The rest of the album follows the same experimental narrative as Submerged By The Ghost Of A White Whale with moments of Post-Metal, Psych and Post-Doom methodology taking the record into heavier and twisted waters especially on tracks such as D.I.E. Sect and The Science Of Slow Moving Monsters.
Upon Whom The Last Light Descends II : Amnesia Island continues the bleak sonic vision that BEWARE OF GODS first started back in 2022 with their debut release Upon Whom The Last Light Descends PT I: I Am Named After Death. Both albums have similar themes and sounds to each other but both standout as highly original works with different stories to entice listeners with. You could consider both records different sides of the same coin with BEWARE OF GODS once again creating a complex, challenging and refreshing style of Post-Doom and Post-Metal that will haunt your very being for a long time to come.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
