| DUST Review |
Mourning Beloveth - "Dust" Brilliant, hyponotic, beautiful: these are just some of the words that come to mind when listening to Dust, the actual first label release from Ireland's Mourning Beloveth who have been creating nearly flawless doom/death metal since the early 1990s. This album was first released by the band themselves in 2000. Since only a small handful of copies of the original were made and are long since sold out, Sentinel Ireland decided to re-release the album, thus providing more copies and revised cover artwork. One can feel a true sense of pain and suffering, possibly real human emotion felt by the band coming out in their music. The combination of clean and gutteral death metal vocals scattered across atmospheric and melodic musical passages topped off with a near perfect and rather bassy production (a good amount of bass lacks quite a bit in most newer metal recordings, IMO) does a great deal in setting the overall mood of this album. It's virtually impossible to pick one song which best represents this band since each track seems to be more gut-wrenching than the previous. If you do not get a few goosebumps or chills down your spine while listening to Dust, then you certainly are not worthy of the human race. It's quite possibly one of the heaviest and melancholic albums to ever be recorded! Overall, if you enjoy intelligent and true emotional metal without the flash and flowers, be sure to pick this album up.
T.Copeland |