There must be something in the water in Great Britain, which inspires all those (Doom)bands to write this great atmospheric, emotional and doomy stuff. The Prophecy released their second full-length album 'Revelations' in 2006 on a smaller label, that is run by members of My Dying Bride. One could say, that this could already be taken as a sign of quality, as MDB are surely among some of the best Doommetal bands.

Fans of Opeth, Swallow The Sun, My Dying Bride and Doom/Deathmetal fans in general can buy this album blindly. You just can´t do anything wrong.All others should give it a try as well, even though the songs are surely no slight fare, as they´re between 7 and 14 minutes long. However this shouldn´t be a problem for fans of this genre. It´s always a bit dangerous to produce such long songs, since you´re always in danger of repeating certain structures and patterns too often, but The Prophecy don´t seem to have a problem with that.

Describing all the songs would surely go beyond the scope of this review, so let me pick out the song, that caught my intention from the first second on and is surely the best song, to show all the different faces of The Prophecy : "Of Darkness". This song has everything from clean vocals to deep Death-growls, progressive parts, doomy, heavy and faster ones. It´s like a summary of all songs on the CD. Matt Lawson (vocalist) is one of those vocalists, who make me really happy, while listening to them, because of the flawless alternation of clean vocals and growls, whereas most musicians are good at either clean or grunts, but seldomly both like here. Some people might call them My Dying Bride clones, but you can be sure, that this won´t be fair to The Prophecy, since they´ve got enough own ideas an own style of presenting their music. So even though I threw in those names, I don´t really like the comparison. Take it more as a to-buy-advise for fans of the aforementioned bands.

There´s only one question left... why is a band, that produced two high-quality Death/Doommetal albums still pretty unknown? The Prophecy definitely don´t have to hide from other bands of that genre, especially not with a high quality output like 'Revelations', which is only their second (!) one. Therefore 9 out of 10 points without hesitating!

written by Ateacina

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