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I
came to know these slow hands accidentally. A couple of months
ago, I actually run into their 1998 record Quietus at my
local record store and it only cost me $0.99, so that shall be
part of the next installment of the Tales From the Cutout Bin
series. Quietus was released by Canadian label Dwell
records, which has actually been re-animated recently and who
over a decade ago issued a pretty average Celtic Frost tribute
record I used to rock to back in college. Evoken have been
getting great press lately and even before the release of their
latest. A Caress of the Void. I have encountered a couple
of pieces praising highly the dead tempo and
sleeping power of Quietus.
Nowadays this Lyndhurst New Jersey foursome is signed to Swedish
doom reign I Hate Records, who are dishing out some of the
mightiest doom in the world (not an exaggeration by any means),
and who with Evoken, really, score another fucking legendary
touchdown.
Anyway, imagine
four really old trees playing metal. It would be doom, right? No
other way around it. It would be slow, of the tenebrous kind,
sort of eerie, supernatural in some ways. As fast as the wind
shakes the heavy and oddly long branches, slow and long
movements, massive string strums shall be let rung. As long as
there is feeling is fine. This, the feeling, shall not be of the
good kind. Actually, the uglier, the more negative, the more
depressive and suicidal, the most negative, perverse and
antagonistic, the better. Take “Of Pure Absolution” for
instance; is clean and dirty, clear strings and blurred up
massive heaviness; dazed, stuporous and nightmarish melodies
move at snail-like pace. Evoken’s metal has been carefully
arranged, while most tracks go over the seven minute mark, most
seem to move in chapters. The cut in question (“Of Pure
Absolution”) for instance, gets a tad faster, but there is no
spirit lifting nor light at the end of the tunnel kind of
feeling. A few other passages own a slice of the cut, the
absolute feeling of despair is constant though. This is doom to
drown to.
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