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PROCESSION
'Death And Judgement'
(Burn Records / High Roller
Records)
Doom metal aficionados
better act fast securing a copy of this 10" MLP for themselves,
with Procession's ever growing (and rightfully so!) profile in
the scene chances are slim the edition of 500 would be available long
before the "sold out" sign is being hung by each and every
label/distro carrying this.
There's news the band's new
album, 'To Reap Heavens Apart', is gonna be recorded
October/November and the title track is an advanced version of one of
the six songs planned to appear on that one. "Death And
Judgement", isn't a mere appetizer, make no mistake about it -
the song is an eight minute long monument boldly proclaiming and
justifying band's place as one of the most exciting heavy-weight doom
acts in current existence. The writing, playing and singing are all
stellar, which is only to be expected, as is the production but the
real strength of the song is the plethora of emotions it does
successfully transmit and the overwhelming impact those are destined
to have upon the listener. At its best music is pure magic - take a
listen and don't tell me you're not obsessed by sorrow, grief,
remorse, hope and all-conquering triumph. I wouldn't believe you
anyway. "There's someone calling at my grave / I can't believe
that I'm dead..." - to say this gives me the chills would be a vast understatement.
Magic, pure magic. Either
that or the bitterest curse...
Following perfection would
be impossible, hadn't it been for Procession paying tribute to
the mighty Scald on the flip of this essential release. It's
been 15 years now since Agyl's untimely death and it's amazing to
acknowledge the influence and importance of Scald's sole
full-length album upon the hermetic doom metal world. The biggest
praise I could give here on the cover version of "Nightsky"
is that one really feels like wandering the vast plains of Russia,
with the stars dimly shinning over the waters of Volga river and
leave it at that. [9,5]
(Vladimir Petrov)
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