November's Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
I've got a huge backlog of albums that I need to listen to. So I thought I'd do a kind of live-review as I listen to this album. November's Doom, as the name implies, plays doom metal, similar to Daylight Dies and Swallow the Sun, two bands that I love. For some reason November's Doom has never struck a chord with me, but we'll see how this goes. This album isn't even their most recent. The Novella Reservoir is the title of their newest release if I remember correctly. I tried listening to one or two tracks of that album and put it away.
track 1 - good slow, mostly clean song. It kept my interest as I started writing this review.
track 2 - Opening with some spoken vocals, which I've never liked. Now the first death vocals have started. I think it's the singer's voice that I've never liked, maybe it will grow on me. With those complaints, its turned out to be a good song.
track 3 - Ripping opening riff. It's only the third track and I'm enjoying the vocals more. That's a good sign.
track 4 - Well, back to not liking the vocals. Posting the album cover during this song. Cool album cover. This band has always had good artwork, which is what has drawn me to the band in the first place.
track 5 - This song started off not too promising, but the clean vocals and some acoustics in the middle have eased my ears.
track 6 - Just added a new link. Check out a great night shot of the shuttle Atlantis in today's astronomy picture of the day.
track 7 - Good drum intro. Bring on some thick guitars now... Singer used the line "The pale haunt departure." Strange, track 1 was the title track.
track 8 - slow clean finale to the album. Decent song with some good vocals.
Overall a decent album. Nothing spectacular to me, but if you are a big fan of doom metal and don't already know of this band, then this is worth checking out. The production is top notch, and these guys do their stuff very well. It's just not entirely my thing.
track 1 - good slow, mostly clean song. It kept my interest as I started writing this review.
track 2 - Opening with some spoken vocals, which I've never liked. Now the first death vocals have started. I think it's the singer's voice that I've never liked, maybe it will grow on me. With those complaints, its turned out to be a good song.
track 3 - Ripping opening riff. It's only the third track and I'm enjoying the vocals more. That's a good sign.
track 4 - Well, back to not liking the vocals. Posting the album cover during this song. Cool album cover. This band has always had good artwork, which is what has drawn me to the band in the first place.
track 5 - This song started off not too promising, but the clean vocals and some acoustics in the middle have eased my ears.
track 6 - Just added a new link. Check out a great night shot of the shuttle Atlantis in today's astronomy picture of the day.
track 7 - Good drum intro. Bring on some thick guitars now... Singer used the line "The pale haunt departure." Strange, track 1 was the title track.
track 8 - slow clean finale to the album. Decent song with some good vocals.
Overall a decent album. Nothing spectacular to me, but if you are a big fan of doom metal and don't already know of this band, then this is worth checking out. The production is top notch, and these guys do their stuff very well. It's just not entirely my thing.
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