The Lodge @ Long Winters Stare's The Tears of Odin's Fallen Review

Long Winter's Stare
The Tears of Odin's Fallen

Long Winter's Stare treasure that sluggish and depressing plane of Metal; in effect, I should say that its members get it done quite well, as The Tears of Odin's Fallen is generally glum, dreary and drab, all through the seven titles that embrace it.

Comparatively to all the widely held Doom Metal combos, these American lads propose us a combination of vocal grunts with pleasant female lines (courtesy of Deirdre Faith) and occasional clean singing, bringing out an infrequent harmony, which intrinsically crafts the actual beguiling decoy of this release. The keyboard lines have to be referred with considerable weight, as they're reasonably overdone and lift up the entire mood to altitudes of bittersweet melancholy, on top of the proficiently programmed drumming lines, as they work very well for the slightly time-consuming pieces (while they rivet nearly everything each time the band tries to affix more muscle to their sonority).
Quite frankly, I have to say that I expected a little more from this gang, as it was fairly revered in other mediums with their preceding Before the Dawn, so go the Shadows of Humanity endeavour - even if this testimony is evidently unyielding in its main quarters. On the other hand, I believe they have to pull off more unswerving compositions next time, or else they won't go much further than this, such as with a particularly drawn out and monotonous final song like The Unknown God.
After a while, this will be an album that will cause varied reactions in most listeners, plainly because this field is oversaturated with alike releases - and applying an expression as "Symphonic Dark Metal" won't help much either, as the presence of this act is a bit broader than said term.

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