Metamorphogenesis - Esoteric

Birmingham's Esoteric are one of the more impressive funeral doom metal bands, a genre pioneered by the likes of Thergothon who took the already crawling pace of traditional doom metal and stretched it out to new extremes of glacial tedium. Unlike boring drone bands such as Sunn O))) who merely sustain notes for far longer than the average human attention span permits, Esoteric use the slower pace to their advantage in creating an engulfing, wholly depressive and somewhat alien atmosphere. These three songs are slow and demanding of the listener, but possess enough internal variation to keep them interesting. They become increasingly shorter as the album ...  Read the complete review