As far as Funeral Doom with acoustic guitars go, the Australian Funeral Doom band has a couple of tracks with either full or partial acoustic guitars, they usually also feature whispered vocals instead of harsh vocals. They used to put 1 track like that on each of their albums/EPs, but I am not sure if they still do on their newer stuff. My favourites are probably "When The Weeping Dawn Beheld Its Mortal Thirst" from their 2005 "The Monad Of Creation" album and "Empirical Choirs" from their 1999 "Tears From A Grieving Heart" album. They have more of them, but those would be the first 2 that come to mind. I love Mournful Cogregations work, which tends to be pretty melodic even though it's usually very slow as well. An other band that comes to mind is the Japanese Funeral Doom band Funeral Moth because of their 2016 "Transience" album, It's a 40 minute album with 2 tracks. They have somewhat of a similar style to Mournful Congregation on their first album, but the "Transience" album is very different and I like it a lot as well it has point that might not be considered Funeral Doom any more by some people because it's relatively chill and more towards the 40-50 bpm range I think, but I still categorize it clearly as Funeral Doom. I don't think they use acoustic guitars, but they sound like calmly played clean guitars on the first track of that album to the point that it's one of the few Funeral Doom albums I can use to relax to before bed and can even fall asleep to (even though not everything on those tracks is calm). Skepticisms early albums are like that for me as well, they put me in a type of zen state for some reason. The first Skepticism album (Stormcrowfleet) might actually be my favourite Funeral Doom album of all time. Not comparable to the other stuff, but one of my other favourite Funeral Doom albums so I can not help to mention it, is "The Last Tape Before Doomsday" (or CD or Vinyl depending on what you get), which is a demo album by the German/French band Worship (now only German), it is absolutely not relaxing whatsoever even though I can use it for that but I just love how raw that whole album sounds without it sounding like absolute garbage (imo) like so many black metal demos for example. It's very simple overall since it was a 2-piece band back then, with only simple guitar/bass tracks, drums, some piano and vocals. It is always manages to sink in pretty deep. The lyrics are in 3 languages, English, French and German. I actually put it on this morning when walking through the snow to work and I am looking forward to hearing the rest of it. It works great for me for this time of year.
Also the EP this comes off is called As All Seasons Die and is obviously themed on the seasons, the cyclical aspects of nature, life, and death. Especially death. It also refers often to a mother nature figure, like gaia, personified in the lyrics. She mostly shows up in the winter themed song and the spring themed song, the latter of which serves as an intro, which is fitting as spring is much too hopeful to dwell on for long here. The motif of the crown also shows up several times, I feel it connects to the song Northern Crown off their latest album The Sadness of Time Passing as well in meaning, even if the theme is a little different in the EP. The passing of time, the beauty and sadness of nature; our place in it and in time, in life, in death.
Also about the lyrics, while all of this also pertains to the life/death theme; I believe the quiet flame is the sun, the weightless candles are the sunbeams, the candles and the flame then kindle (light, brighten, display ||| choose your phrasing) what you see in nature, the reverie and the epitaph. That's also why you would be buried in the warm chest of the earth, because at the end, when the sun sets, when my candle fades and the twilight's gone; autumn comes withering and with its promise, winter's white hand of death.
The title is actually A Reverie (Midsummer's Dying Throes), all the online postings of it are wrong to exclude the throes. I was considering whether to do The Dire Womb of Winter or Northern Crown, but this is a bit more accessible in terms of length. I really love all of Profetus' output, its beautiful and meditative even though they are obviously very heavy. Also from Finland, kings of funeral doom, Skepticism, Thergothon, Disembowelment, and Colosseum like you just reviewed. Funny how this lined up right alongside Colosseum.
As far as Funeral Doom with acoustic guitars go, the Australian Funeral Doom band has a couple of tracks with either full or partial acoustic guitars, they usually also feature whispered vocals instead of harsh vocals. They used to put 1 track like that on each of their albums/EPs, but I am not sure if they still do on their newer stuff. My favourites are probably "When The Weeping Dawn Beheld Its Mortal Thirst" from their 2005 "The Monad Of Creation" album and "Empirical Choirs" from their 1999 "Tears From A Grieving Heart" album. They have more of them, but those would be the first 2 that come to mind. I love Mournful Cogregations work, which tends to be pretty melodic even though it's usually very slow as well.
An other band that comes to mind is the Japanese Funeral Doom band Funeral Moth because of their 2016 "Transience" album, It's a 40 minute album with 2 tracks. They have somewhat of a similar style to Mournful Congregation on their first album, but the "Transience" album is very different and I like it a lot as well it has point that might not be considered Funeral Doom any more by some people because it's relatively chill and more towards the 40-50 bpm range I think, but I still categorize it clearly as Funeral Doom. I don't think they use acoustic guitars, but they sound like calmly played clean guitars on the first track of that album to the point that it's one of the few Funeral Doom albums I can use to relax to before bed and can even fall asleep to (even though not everything on those tracks is calm). Skepticisms early albums are like that for me as well, they put me in a type of zen state for some reason. The first Skepticism album (Stormcrowfleet) might actually be my favourite Funeral Doom album of all time.
Not comparable to the other stuff, but one of my other favourite Funeral Doom albums so I can not help to mention it, is "The Last Tape Before Doomsday" (or CD or Vinyl depending on what you get), which is a demo album by the German/French band Worship (now only German), it is absolutely not relaxing whatsoever even though I can use it for that but I just love how raw that whole album sounds without it sounding like absolute garbage (imo) like so many black metal demos for example. It's very simple overall since it was a 2-piece band back then, with only simple guitar/bass tracks, drums, some piano and vocals. It is always manages to sink in pretty deep. The lyrics are in 3 languages, English, French and German. I actually put it on this morning when walking through the snow to work and I am looking forward to hearing the rest of it. It works great for me for this time of year.
Also the EP this comes off is called As All Seasons Die and is obviously themed on the seasons, the cyclical aspects of nature, life, and death. Especially death. It also refers often to a mother nature figure, like gaia, personified in the lyrics. She mostly shows up in the winter themed song and the spring themed song, the latter of which serves as an intro, which is fitting as spring is much too hopeful to dwell on for long here. The motif of the crown also shows up several times, I feel it connects to the song Northern Crown off their latest album The Sadness of Time Passing as well in meaning, even if the theme is a little different in the EP. The passing of time, the beauty and sadness of nature; our place in it and in time, in life, in death.
Also about the lyrics, while all of this also pertains to the life/death theme; I believe the quiet flame is the sun, the weightless candles are the sunbeams, the candles and the flame then kindle (light, brighten, display ||| choose your phrasing) what you see in nature, the reverie and the epitaph. That's also why you would be buried in the warm chest of the earth, because at the end, when the sun sets, when my candle fades and the twilight's gone; autumn comes withering and with its promise, winter's white hand of death.
Does this add anything to what Thergothon were doing 30+ years ago?
Quantity :3
The title is actually A Reverie (Midsummer's Dying Throes), all the online postings of it are wrong to exclude the throes. I was considering whether to do The Dire Womb of Winter or Northern Crown, but this is a bit more accessible in terms of length. I really love all of Profetus' output, its beautiful and meditative even though they are obviously very heavy. Also from Finland, kings of funeral doom, Skepticism, Thergothon, Disembowelment, and Colosseum like you just reviewed. Funny how this lined up right alongside Colosseum.
Yeah, today was a great day for doom fans! And I fixed the title of the song in both the video title and thumbnail. Thanks for pointing that out.
Hi! Just an FYI that I sent you an email. Just letting you know so that you’re aware.
Yup, I got it. I'll be carving out some more time this year for smaller bands and will certainly be covering yours soon.
@ awesome! Appreciate your support.