The label Aesthetic Death has been churning out some quality doom metal lately, and Walk Through Fire is another addition to their roster, now delivering fourty minutes of painful, slow sludge / doom metal with some post-metal influences on their second full-length Furthest from Heaven.
Considering the album's title, the aura is fittingly desperate. The self-titled ”Furthest from Heaven” creeps up slowly, starting with slightly atonal and distortionless chords and then building up to the slow metal which consists of just a couple of beats and riffs. ”Through Me They Bleed” continues this with even better ideas in the riff department, as the predecessor may stagnate a little too much during its 12-minute static repetition.
”The Dying Sun” is an interlude of droning synth mats, nothing out of the ordinary really, but an apt moment of peace until ”The Dead Sun”, the true monolith of Furthest from Heaven kicks in. It is chaos meeting desperation in this partially faster song, and here the band has managed to create their most consistent composition in which the unchanging nature of the style bothers the least. The mid-range growls deliver the minimalist lines convincingly, and the riffs capture the emotions the best.
Furthest from Heaven does not really hit any special spots in me. Most of its material is definitely not goose bumps inducing nor totally memorable. But the fact is that the songs are decent at worst and there’s no moments of irritation on any corner of the album - it flows nicely throughout and luckily realizes to stop after the fourth song so that it hasn’t been prolonged to unnecessary extents. I have seen Neurosis and Isis mentioned in regard to this album and I agree that fans of those bands might enjoy what’s on the bleak landscapes of Furthest from Heaven.
Considering the album's title, the aura is fittingly desperate. The self-titled ”Furthest from Heaven” creeps up slowly, starting with slightly atonal and distortionless chords and then building up to the slow metal which consists of just a couple of beats and riffs. ”Through Me They Bleed” continues this with even better ideas in the riff department, as the predecessor may stagnate a little too much during its 12-minute static repetition.
”The Dying Sun” is an interlude of droning synth mats, nothing out of the ordinary really, but an apt moment of peace until ”The Dead Sun”, the true monolith of Furthest from Heaven kicks in. It is chaos meeting desperation in this partially faster song, and here the band has managed to create their most consistent composition in which the unchanging nature of the style bothers the least. The mid-range growls deliver the minimalist lines convincingly, and the riffs capture the emotions the best.
Furthest from Heaven does not really hit any special spots in me. Most of its material is definitely not goose bumps inducing nor totally memorable. But the fact is that the songs are decent at worst and there’s no moments of irritation on any corner of the album - it flows nicely throughout and luckily realizes to stop after the fourth song so that it hasn’t been prolonged to unnecessary extents. I have seen Neurosis and Isis mentioned in regard to this album and I agree that fans of those bands might enjoy what’s on the bleak landscapes of Furthest from Heaven.
2.5 / 5
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