Published: Absolute Underground Issue #47 August/September 2012
Witchsorrow's second album came out a little more than a month ago on Rise Above Records. If you know anything about Rise Above you know you're in for a doom album. Witchsorrow is about as traditional a doom band as you can get. Makes sense with them being a 3 piece from Hampshire UK. That and I think they might have spent a lot of time in a basement listening to the first 3 Cathedral albums over and over.
Five out of the seven songs on this one are getting close to or over the ten minute mark but it doesn't get boring. The pacing of most of these songs is pretty low and slow. You might think you're in for a monotonous hour but it works for what it is. "God curse us" and "Masters of nothing" have a serious old sabbath feel going on. There's a few parts where they pick up the speed like "breaking the lore" and that's the only song that doesn't have the crushing, gloomy feel to it. TThen you'll get a few guitar solos...well doom guitar solos followed by solid but slow riffing. Nekroskull's vocals have a slow raspy delivery to them that fit with bass and drums that are almost seemless together.
Generally I'm not a huge doom fan but most of this made me smile. I know doom isn't supposed to make you smile so I guess I'm weird like that. Must be the sabbath sound. Probably work well for anyone who wants to drink red wine and stare at gravestones.
Michael Carnage
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