Mourning Beloveth 'The Sullen Sulcus'

I remember my first experience with the music of Mourning Beloveth very well. It was on the Peacefest in Hof ter Loo, a couple of years ago. While waiting on headliner My Dying Bride, I was standing there, listening with awe to the doomy backgroundmusic. What band was that, for fuck's sake? Mourning Beloveth from Ireland. I was immediately sold. You maybe too, if you know that Mourning Beloveth excels in ultraheavy, slow going death-doom like MDB, Anathema and Paradise Lost did it in the early nineties. On their second album, the lads outclass the aforementioned bands in slowness and heaviness, by combining classic doom elements (deep grunts, dragging guitar drones, menacing drum rolls) with the sinister tomb atmosphere of Winter and Thergothon. Let's not beat around the bush, "The Sullen Sulcus" is probably the best doom album we got to hear in the last few years.
(KDM) GOLD (6/7)