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Mourning Beloveth - "Dust"

Tragedian experience?? Smells much like My Dying Bride?? Want to taste it?? Why not! In spite of certain influence, this is pretty good music and certainly an album worth hearing. Yeah, it is self-released, but I believe that guys simply do not want to be buried in the drawers of some careless label, and do think that it's no trouble to lay the path to success ahead of themselves on their own. I was told that they play doom, and thought to hear traditional metal in here, and was partly right. But on the other hand Mourning Beloveth incorporate deep growling vocals that are a pure proof of their modern approach as well. Well, for some younger people early 90-ies might be not modern anymore... whatever. This five-piece merges 80-ies and 90-ies, but keep preaching the doom message. Dare not to trace death metal influences though - it is just about vocal style, and it works great in their case. If we return to clean chanting, I found a clear parallel with British doomers Solstice here, because vocalists of both bands have similar pitch. Don't worry about average quality - this recording was done in Academy with Mags producing. It is probably the most appropriate place to record music like this, and there is nothing to be disappointed with the spirit caught inside studio's walls. As a drawback I would name a bit similar structure of their long songs that in 61 minutes run turns monotonic at times. But it's doom, so why should anyone bother? I would never mind more mid-tempo breaks though, like for instance a closing riff of In Mourning my Days that amuses me with. Well, it's like MDB again, but it sounds fuckin' cool. I presume that there's not much bands left exploring this genre, so if you seek for more music like this, you can't go wrong with Dust.

Tadas - 10/13