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Artwork by Jérôme Comentale Deathwhite - Grey Everlasting (2022) Doom Metal

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Grave Image, by Deathwhite

10 track album

Listening with great interest.--L.B.D.

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My Top Albums of 2018

I guess its that time of year. Only in the past two years have I really been getting into music again, after so long of being disillusioned by the state of radio, with rock and metal basically just being shunned; for about five years before I just listened to Tool, APC, The Cure and Type O Negative over and over. But with the magic of algorithms recommending me some killer new faves, I am completely immersed again, and spent a lot of time this year streaming new music.

Here goes!

7)

The Ocean- Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

Sample Track: Nascent (Featuring Jonas Renkse from Katatonia)

First off, it’s this track that makes the album for me. Jonas Renkse is my absolute favorite vocalist and Katatonia my favorite band; he sings with such a soft, soothing melancholy baritone, so the fact he lent his vocals to a track caught my attention straight away. I’d heard of the Ocean before but not listened to much before then. Great progressive post-metal, really solid album start to finish. I need to do more listens as its release was relatively recent! In time it may climb up my list.

6) A Perfect Circle- Eat the Elephant

I’m a big fan of Maynard’s work, and of his projects, APC is likely my favorite. Billy Howerdell is an excellent musician. that being said, I think Eat the Elephant is the weakest of their albums, but by no means is it a bad one. Lyricism can feel a little preachy in places but the compositions are stellar and Maynard’s vocals are gorgeous as ever. I wish the radio station I listen to at work would stop thrashing the shit of “So Long and Thanks for all the Fish,” though. I love it sure, but I don’t want to hear it twice a damn day.

Featured track: Delicious

5) Alice in Chains: Rainier Fog

I used to listen to Dirt on cassette tape in my friend's car as a teen! Who would’ve thought a band could continue to produce such great, cohesive music after the death of a lead singer and founding member. Such a heavy, foggy atmosphere to this album that’s somehow just beautiful. Second track’s opening riff makes me think of Discouraged one’s/ Tonights Decision Era Katatonia up until the vocals start.

Featured Track: Rainier Fog

4) Altars of Grief- Iris

Wow! Honestly, a spiritual successor to the now disbanded Canadian Blackened Doom band “woods of Ypres”, which tragically ended after the death of Lea singer and founding member, David Gold in 2011. That’s not to say they are a carbon copy, with their lyrics a little more abstract and darkly spiritual than David’s straightforward, grounded realistic style; but the clean vocals are eerily similar. the compositions are tight, expertly played and varied.

Featured Track: Isolation

3)

Ghost: Prequelle

I first started listening to Ghost last year, totally sucked in my all the mystery behind the masks and the image, and was very surprised to find Pop metal where I expected blast beats and shrieks like black metal, but it was a pleasant surprise. Meliora remains my favorite of the Ghost offerings, but Prequelle is a solid album start to finish, my only complaint is that it doesn’t feel long enough. Vocals are so unique. Lyrics are simple, somewhat funny and dark. Like life, if you let it be.

Featured song: Faith

2) Ihsahn- Àmr

I love every track on this album. If you like Ghost and are looking to go heavier and more serious, I cannot recommend Ihsahn enough. He is a heavyweight of Norwegian black metal from the infamous band Emperor, and now working on his own experimental solo projects he’s doing such groundbreaking things with progressive metal.

This album is one of his more accessible to the everyman, beautiful vocals with a mix of heavy shrieks/ incredible melodic cleans. Lyrics are deep and well crafted, never veering onto the side of cheesy. It’s hard to pick a favorite track, with Samr, Twin Black Angels Lend me the Eyes of Millenia coming in a tie with my feature track as my number 1

Featured track: Arcana Imperii

1) Deathwhite- For a Black Tomorrow

A stunning, gothic debut. Similar to Ghost, these guys are shrouded in mystery. The members not name themselves and have only played 1 live show in which they wore full hoods for the duration. Mystery aside, they have their own unique brand of dark metal, with exclusively clean vocals similar to later Katatonia, and heavy drum and guitar to make an exquisite contrast.

Lyrics are dark, dealing with isolation and lost love, depression, and hopelessness without veering into themes of self-harm. Therapeutic sadness. Very underrated and relatively unknown, I hope to see them grow and carry on from this solid debut. They are clearly well-established as highly competent metal musicians already with impeccable technique, the tiny clips I saw on Instagram of their live show sounded identical to the album. True professionals.

Featured Track: Dreaming the Inverse

TL;DR: I like depressing music almost exclusively.

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Deathwhite - Grey Everlasting (Season Of Mist, 2022)

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Deathwhite - For A Black Tomorrow (Season Of Mist, 2018)

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Deathwhite - Grey Everlasting - Album Review

Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting – Album Review

Artist: Deathwhite Album Title: Grey Everlasting Label: Season Of Mist Date of Release: 10 June 2022 Released nearly two weeks ago, I am really tardy with this review, and for that I apologise to all those who are bitterly disappointed by my ineptitude. The thing is, I just missed it. And were it not for a nudge from outside sources, this album might have escaped me altogether. And, as it…

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Deathwhite streaming new album Grey Everlasting

Band: DeathwhiteAlbum: Grey EverlastingRelease Date: June 10th, 2022Label: Season of Mist The band states: “It is with great pride to share the full stream of Grey Everlasting. We have done our share of reflecting now that the album’s release is just days away. The most rewarding aspect of being in Deathwhite is writing and recording music, then sharing it. The creation of Grey Everlasting was…

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