|
|
|
|
| Buy this album |
Sometimes mechanical, sometimes organic industrial-goth metal from South Korea, of all off-the-metal-map locales, this eponymous debut is a winner right out of the gate. "Deceivers" sounds like Skinny Puppy paired up with a more talented Marilyn Manson. "My Own Way" and "Chilling Fields" summon One Second-era Paradise Lost in all its dance-floored, sold out glory (which is fine by me, I might add) and the main riff of "Loss, Void" sounds like it was grafted straight from the hip of Black Sabbath’s Vol. 4. The adherence to simple, catchy songcraft is a welcome respite in these latter days of gorging orchestration and ornate pretense, although I'd wager that some of that comes from an acknowledgment of goth-punk influence alongside the usual goth-metal suspects. Hey, whatever gets 'em through the night. Great production and mix, appropriate mystery and atmosphere... I can't wait to see what they'll do next, especially if they record another native-language masterpiece like title song "A Doom" (which means "darkness" for the rest of us). [The album gets] docked a full point for the Middle East-by-numbers synthdustrial stomp of closer "Baghdad Café."
| Tracklist |
| 1. Overture 666 |
| 2. Deceivers |
| 3. My Own Way |
| 4. Indian Ink Painting |
| 5. Memorial |
| 6. A Doom |
| 7. Chilling Fields |
| 8. Flower Petal |
| 9. Loss, Void |
| 10. Gloomy Street |
| 11. Lament |
| 12. Baghdad Café |
:
| Buy other A Doom albums |
