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Watching From a Distance - Warning
 Watching From a Distance - Warning ... one of the finest around. This sophomore effort is already a near doom classic only after 2 listens. Very heavy and morose, with a good balance between raw, drifting rainstorm gloom and epic proclamations of woe and misery. Imagine a perfect hybrid of Candlemass, St. Vitus, and Revelation and then add some more sorrow to it and you have this new Warning. Really standing out on their own courtesy of the heartfelt vocals and mastery of the rainy day doom riff, this album is 100% essential to anyone into pure doom metal of the highest caliber.Newest Review: ... speeds up in a significant way throughout (though the shorter second and fourth songs do stand out as less sombre than the ... more ... longer main ‘trilogy’), but for seasoned doom metal fans the main area of interest will likely be the vocals. Pat Walker, also the guitarist and song-writer, follows the memorable example of Robert Lowe from Solitude Aeturnus (now the frontman for Candlemass) in his pained high singing, with a nasal tone reminiscent of Ozzy Osbourne in the early days. Avoiding the bombastic tenor approach of Messiah Marcolin, Walker’s distinct voice adds a great sense of character and personalisation to this album, something I find lac...more |
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Watching From a Distance - Warning: I Wish You Were Here With Me Tonight (1314 words)
by - written on 19/08/07 (Very useful, 165 readings)
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The second album from Harlow doom-metallers Warning was released in late 2006, a staggering seven years after their debut release. Although this was primarily due to frontman Pat Walker’s pursuit of an acting career, the extended duration is entirely appropriate to Warning’s funereally slow style. As musical taste is entirely subjective, each individual will respond in varying degrees to music that is designed to evoke emotions of sorrow, whether it’s a particularly sad Mahler symphony or everything recorded by Radiohead ever. For me, ‘Watching from a Distance’ is the most intensely upsetting and hopelessly forlorn music I’ve ever heard, partly because of the ... Read the complete review
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