SHIT AND SHINE
Cherry
(Riot Season)

THE DEVIL AND THE SEA
Heart Vs Spine
(AND)

LATITUDES
Bleak Epiphany in Slow Motion
(Shelsmusic)

THE GATES OF SLUMBER
Conqueror
(Profound Lore)

DEICIDE
Till Death Do Us Part
(Earache)

MOURNING BELOVETH
A Disease for the Ages 

(Grau)

AVSKY
Malignant

(Moribund)

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This Irish doom band has got to do something about updating their biography on their website. It only goes through 2005.  Who knows? Maybe it is updated, and Mourning Beloveth got stuck in time, in an era where life was far simpler, where the everyday complications of the modern man weren’t even a dream and pastoral life was a peachy idea. Or maybe they are caught in another dimension, in a plane where darkness reigns supreme, dark clothing is mandatory and depression is just another season of the year.  Maybe, Mourning Beloveth are reliving the birth of funeral doom and are recreating it through their own version of snail paced metal. Cause shit, updating an official site can’t be that hard. Sites like metal-archives.com are far more informative about the band than their official site.  Or maybe I should grow the fuck up and be more responsible, I shouldn’t lose all the promo package that usually comes attached to the albums.

But anyway, as I have learned from this referential site, A Disease for the Ages is the band’s fourth full-length without counting a split with paisanos Lunar Gate. Its five songs are fucking heavy and fucking slow. But moving at the pace of an old school zombie doesn’t cut it anymore, so besides the deep and cavernous cookie monster growl of Darren Moore we occasionally get clean singing. Sometimes it is deep and placed way in the back, like you are hallucinating and are only thinking that you are hearing it, which is quite the nice and thoughtful touch if you ask me. Also, as doom has redefined the concept of an EP, A Disease for the Ages has only five songs but don’t be a bitch complaining about its price. It totals over fifty-five minutes of music. That’s more doom than most can handle at one sitting.

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