The Funeral Orchestra - Feeding the Abyss (Aftermath Music/Eternal Dark Productions)"The sound of no hope.
Sickeningly heavy, lysergically slow and totally hypnotic doom with a reverberating low end that will be heard for centuries as it makes its way through the cosmos. Apocalyptic Trance Ritual Doom Music indeed. This and Unearthly Trances' Season of Seance, Science of Silence will be in a dead heat to make Hellride Music's 2003 Top Five Albums for Ritual Sacrifice at the end of the year.
The Funeral Orchestra are the last word in cult doom, preferring to compose and perform under a shroud of mystery. They don't identify themselves, and take the stage wearing only form-covering habits and eerie reflective masks. Their website says so little about them that I'm not even sure in which part of the dark recesses of Northern Europe they reside.
Out of the ten tracks here, only "Worship" falls short.... a brief funeral organ-driven piece with the sound of female weeping in the background. A little too over the top for these ears. But the rest of the album is magnificent... mostly guitar-driven hymns paying homage to the God of Slow, interspersed with oddly menacing synth and atonal vocals, with no hint of groove or breakdown.
If total, oblivion-licking doom is your thing, don't miss out on this release."
- Chris Barnes, HellrideMusic.com
note: the weeping lady track is indeed quite silly. but overall this is probably good music to play loudly if people you don't really like have slept on your floor and won't leave, it will hopefully create an oppressive, uneasy atmosphere and drive them out.
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