Moss - Cthonic Rites - review
Moss - Cthonic Rites - review
Tracklist
01. Crypts Of Somnambulance02. The Gate
A review by
Lucas July 27, 2008
And Moss, this time the cause of such varying responses, does not disappoint. Or well, it was a bit disappointment when the last fifteen minutes of the album turned out to be silence and a lame sample, but I guess overall that could be seen as a compliment as well. And there is still a good forty-five minutes of great sludgy droning Doom left for the suckers that crave this type of music.
Surprisingly, this album has no bass player, but then again, who needs a bass when you can simply tune your guitar so low that merely hitting a single string is enough to trample bodies? And that's even without the decaying, utterly distorted feedback, vile enough to get a deaf man to gnaw his legs off in despair. Playing chord by chord in the for this particular style usual slow fashion, with tortured screams wailing over it, the aforementioned feedback filling the pitch-black voids in between notes, Moss certainly know how to gently caress the listeners' eardrums.
Moss dissects their volcanic doom until it is reduced to maddening, droning violence. Before I lose myself in epic descriptions of how heavy and cool this is, and keep you from listening to this album, let me just tell you one thing: this is heavy, slow, distorted, crushing and great. Fans of the genre will have a good idea of what this sounds like anyway. Ok, one more then: Moss, will not cease to rest until the final brain cell is blasted into oblivion. Or until you turn the cd-player off. But seriously, what sort of pussy would do that?
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 8 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
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65 minutes? When I put my cd in my stereo it says 66 minutes and 6 seconds.  But really good album nonetheless, although I do prefer this year's release Sub Templum by them. That one clocks in at 73 minutes and 54 seconds but does consist of four tracks, my God they sold out hahahaha.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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