Deceptive Awareness - Ablaze In Hatred

Another year, another Finnish doom metal band that sounds pretty much the same as all the rest. The inappropriately named Ablaze in Hatred loyally follow the tradition of Swallow the Sun, Draconian, Saturnus and others in expressing a feeling of gloom typical to doom metal, but tinged with an overall lighter and more hopeful attitude than the inconsolable despair of English and Norwegian bands, and considering this is the young group’s first album it’s quite a fair forgery. The seven songs that make up ‘Deceptive Awareness’ are all on the longish side, as expected from a musical genre that relies on slow, drawn-out passages rather than the energetic assaults ...  Read the complete review