HORSE
LATITUDES
'Awakening'
(Doomentia Records)
"What do they put in the water over there in Finland?" is one of the unsolved
mysteries of the universe. "Why don't they poison the water in
Finland to get rid of guitar 'prodigies' like Tolkki or Laiho?" being
the other one, apparently. Those damn six-stringers and their
'look-I'm-so-cool' pointless wankery - screw that and bask in the
joys of the primitive, gargantuan, doomier-than-thou intricacies of Horse Latitudes. Their
combination of two bass guitarists and a drummer/vocalist proves to
be a slow and low dirgefest of agony, horror and empty-glazed
despair. Listening to this might be kind of a demanding task, agreed,
but once the attention is rightly adjusted to the crawling pace and
the unusual approach there's no denying to the ability of the band in
creating eerie atmosphere through such minimalistic means. Those who
might write this off as boring and anti-climaxing - take a nice
stroll and pick up those damn schrooms, that should help. If you fail
again then I'm afraid you're doomed to live an eternity of
Korpiklaani jigs and 'metal' brodudery. How I envy you. [7,5]
(Vladimir Petrov)
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