Immensity - The Isolation Splendour

Again. Just sounds too optimistic, uplifting or cheesy for me. Keeping aside those, I guess this is a rather decent doom debut.

Written by 3rdWorld on 01.06.2016 at 12:56

Just sounds too optimistic, uplifting or cheesy for me.

Pretty much this.

Seems to be quite a gap between apothecarys review and release.

Written by [user id=157444] on 01.06.2016 at 14:14

Seems to be quite a gap between apothecarys review and release.

Indeed, 8 seems a very generous rating for this. I was also being very nice in saying its a decent doom release as I wanted to be nice and not take anything away from it. Tbh I didn't go past the first 3 songs here.

I already know which album I will be voting for as the best debut of the year in the next Metal Storm Awards (and maybe the best doom metal album too).
Seriously, I know that Immensity doesn't create anything revolutionary in metal music, but those melodies... I would go as far as to claim that their guitar melodies are on a level of My Dying Bride and their clean vocal melodies are on par with Anathema. I know that's a bold claim, but, honestly, there were not many doom metal albums these last few years that managed to touch me emotionally in the way that The Isolation Splendour did.
Normally I put below some of my favourite tracks from the album, but this time it has no sense as I would have to put all of them.