Just Dreaming - Crematory

Crematory's second album aligns itself more with the death-doom metal sub-genre, and although this robs it of any potential originality, it at least avoids the meandering confusion of their previous release. With extended keyboard passages and prominent lead guitars crafting a slow series of elegies, this should be enjoyed by fans of modern doom metal as long as their expectations aren't set too high. The emphasis is on atmosphere over intensity, something that the keyboards occasionally accomplish when they aren't preoccupied with flitting about above the riffs as they do in the otherwise energetic 'Only Once in a Lifetime,' a doom song that adheres to the ...  Read the complete review