In The Depths Of R'lyeh - Catacombs

...is blatantly untrue: Catacombs is in fact a one-man project masterminded by one Xathagorra Mlandroth, also of funeral doom band Hierophant. The album is an exercise in crushing and oppressive doom very much in the style of genre-veterans Evoken and Esoteric, and its Lovecraftian theme suits the music perfectly, evoking powerful images of immense, aeons-old underwater megaliths, vast subterranean caverns and long-dormant god-like beings of unfathomable ...
...to go on forever, but in a good way. A hugely powerful and immersive album, 'In the Depths of R'yleh' comes highly recommended to fans of Esoteric, Evoken, Skepticism and Disembowelment. Tracklisting- 1. In the Depths of R'lyeh 11:16 2. Dead Dripping City 16:38 3. At the Edge of the Abyss 13:29 4. Where No Light Hath Shone... (But for That of the Moon) 12:41 5. Fallen Into Shadow 16:15 6. Awakening of the World's Doom (Reprise) 02:11 Total playing ...

Burning_Darkness 15.08.2009 (16.08.2009) · Read full review
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