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COLOSSLOTH Antipathy (Doom-Mantra) lp
Another entry in the ever expanding field of sound making we've dubbed doomdronedirge, from a group called Colossloth. It's a sound we've come to love, we just can't get enough of that creepy downtuned crawl, that sprawling rumbling ambience, it's doomy, but not metal, heavy, but not riffy, it's more like dronemusic infused with a degree of menace, an ominous blackness, think Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Wicked King Wicker, R.Y.N., Amort, Haptic, Grief No Absolution, and yeah even SUNNO))) to a certain degree.
Colossloth add their own twist to the proceedings, injecting their sound with a hit of industrial ambience, and some haunting piano, the result is entrancing, totally bleak and beautiful, a single epic doomscape, split into two side long drifts, all simple looped pounding rhythms and layered feedback, laced with muted bits of crunch and whir, rumble and creak, while throughout, a piano plays out a mournful melody, strings are plucked, melodies surface and unfurl before slipping back into the miasma, a mysterious minor key sonic dirge, some sort of funereal martial industrial doom drone trudge, mesmerizing and cinematic, this would be the perfect soundtrack for some Italian horror film, with the main character, in some sort of fugue state, hallucinating, wandering through an old empty house and out into the black forest.
Gorgeous and creepy and intense, but also weirdly pretty, the hushed melodic creep constantly battling with the crunch and hiss of the gloomy industrial drift, woven into a perfectly ominous dirgedronedoomdreamscape. AWESOME.
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(Aquarius records review)
zero tolerance magazine -
there's something deeply unsettling about the juxtaposition of doom and black ambient noise. it's like the misery melding into serenity. a sense not so much of foreboding but of a terrible realisation that an untold horror is already upon us. a handful of bands are doing this well at the moment - blue sabbath black cheer among them - and now you can add Colossloth to that list. mesmeric feedback manipulation laid over delicate acoustic melodies, swaying to the beat of a dark industrial rhythm - the apocalypse has rarely been afforded such a beautiful soundtrack as antipathy in nature (projections from the collective unconscious)
CH 4/5
