Mourning Beloveth 'A Disease for the Ages'

When we talk about Irish Metal, is impossible not to immediately think about Mourning Beloveth, this band has been spreading anguish and misery is shape of music since 1992 and has become one of the most important Doom Metal bands worldwide. With six releases at their backs these Irish Doom/Death Metal masters proudly present here their seventh release and long awaited fourth full length… “A Disease For The Ages” is a really balanced work, combining the heaviness and rusticity of Death Metal with the subtle elegance and arcane melodicism of the European Doom Metal, there’re no overworked atmospheres here, no a single keyboard tune can be hear along the entire album, the sober, still magnificent guitar riffs drive this album through slow and mid paced epic structures, creating a unique aura of despondent heaviness, perfectly complemented by an accurate and solid drum work that perfectly accentuates the whole album’s tempos… I really like the drum sound here, is concrete, heavy and potently mixed into the production. The vocal work here is probably the strongest performed by Mourning Beloveth at the time, mixing the deathly low grunts of Darren Moore with the occasional but incredibly powerful Heavy Metal styled vocalization of Frank Brennan creates a suffocating, dense and mysterious feeling full of anguish and hatred, reaching on the album’s highest point at the dramatic and obscure fourth track “The Burning Man”. There are no frills such intros, outros, instrumental interludes, etc. here, the whole album consist in five thick and infernally dense pieces of Doom/Death Metal at its finest, showing the great experience gained by the band during these 16 years of carrier… “A Disease For The Ages” is an amazing travel to the deepest guts of the human misery, a magnificent compendium of majestic, still heavy as hell riffs, demolishing drumming and killer vocals… this work will not leave indifferent neither Doom nor Death/Doom Metal diehards. (AP)

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