Illimitable Dolor - Illimitable Dolor (2017)
Making their debut with this album,
Illimitable Dolor are an Australian band, spun out of The Slow Death
to pay tribute to the death of their vocalist, Gregg Williamson.
Furnishing a solid modern doom base with touches of death metal in
the vocals and gleams of funeral doom in the pacing, emotion, and
understated melodies (plus the organ-styled keyboards), ID have put
together an album that's fully self-contained while also offering
appreciable depth of content.
Though there's plenty of time given to
the guttural vocals, the band builds atmosphere and follows riffs
through numerous instrumental passages, allowing the somber mood to
mature, seep in, and affect listeners' own emotions, assuming they're
giving the music the attention it deserves. It's one that's tough to
analyze, being suited more to simply being soaked in as an
experience, but that's not to say that ID slump any on the
song-writing front. As they and their instruments groan through the
album's course, there's a broad slice of the metal spectrum explored
along the way, made more impressive by how firmly each style is
slotted into the music. It's an album well-suited to use for delving
into your own depression, or for riding along with the band through
theirs. That the songs can linger on in memory on the strength of
their tunes is a plus, and hopefully the group will continue on to
create something pursuing the melodies, without
their grief holding onto them quite so tightly at that point.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Bell Witch, Jupiterian,
Sunwølf, Thergothon, WarHorse
~
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