Withered - Memento Mori
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Artist: WitheredEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Music Label: Lifeforce Records
Soundtracks:
- It's All Said
- Within Your Grief
- Like Locusts
- Silent Grave
- Beyond Wrath
- Fear and Pain That Cripples Me
- Among Sorrow
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Free Music Review: Like A Rapid Slug
Hit: 4 Stars
Defining "heavy" is something of a grey area, and I've found over the years it divides metal fans down the middle. Does sublimely fast black metal make for the most "heavy" brand? Or is it actually the most severe of slow doom/drone with the thickest, most otherworldly guitar tone? Well, Withered don't give a s**t about this argument. They play both. Well.
Yes, death/doom/grindcore is Withered's deal. It's not a new sound at all - in fact, one of doom's most heralded bands, My Dying Bride, used to gallop into black metal territory with gay abandon. But Withered sound utterly heavier. More raw, more engulfing...just all round more brutal. Their sound has an uncomfortable claustrophobic feeling, largely thanks to a very thick guitar production which I really dig. And they switch between tempos and styles at brake-neck speed with absolute ease. The changes come fast, and out of nowhere. No pretentious atmospherics, or bridges building up climaxes - it's just hit after hit. Opener "It's All Said" sets all this up perfectly, ripping through a variety of riffs and speeds, all encapsulating their thundering, juicy guitar sound, abrasive vocals and lightening drumming. My favourite track here is "Like Locusts", mostly for its enormously heavy and beautiful doom opening. It's up there with the very best doom openings and riffs I've heard, and I'm an avid listener of the genre, so it's saying something. The rest of the songs follow suit, and there isn't really a dull moment to be found.
"Memento Mori" is a very solid debut and promises much for this talented act. Worth checking out for fans of doom/death metal.
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