Storm Warning - Count Raven

Count Raven are the deservedly overlooked band of doom metal's second wave, firstly for arriving too late to make any kind of impact on the eighties scene, and more importantly due to their essential lack of any original traits, apart from an unhealthy preoccupation with keyboards in later releases. The main problem with their debut 'Storm Warning' is just how boring it all is - doom metal is slow and ponderous by its nature, the antithesis of fast metal genres, but here there's little in the way of an emotive or atmospheric justification for the speed, leaving every song sounding overlong and over-repetitive. Christian Lindersson's vocals are in the style of ...