Mourning
Beloveth 'The Sullen Sulcus'
The Sullen Sulcus doesn't only follows the previous album re-release from those Irish doomsters Dust from a mere months. It also follows with the same grace the same musical lonely path, yet with that little extra edge some call experience. And where Mourning Beloveth really does deserve his seat as a retailer of spleen lies in the overall flow of the album. Here, if the songs are (very) longs, it doesn't mean that the band tried to fit in there as much riffs as possible or that they used so much space in order to build complex harmonics patterns. Hell no! Here lenght is used in order to set up one major heavy mood easy for evrybody to drown in. A bit like an anonymous and cold corpse being slowly taken way by the waters to the sound of great vocals duets (agressive and melodic) and simple yet catchy riffs, bearing the mark of My Dying Bride - of course - but also more melodic stuffs like early Katatonia and Opeth. It's a bit like getting a whole round trip along the shores beaten by winds and sea of Ulsterinstead of a quick round of some uninteresting cheap cemetary. Overall pretty much rooted in the doom/death tradition yet with a massive hypnotic edge to it that'll struck you for sure
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