By: Chris Tedor
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 01/09/2015
Label: Self Release
‘Overall a very strong follow up for Clouds Taste Satanic, releasing two great albums within such a
short time-frame of each other is an impressive feat and let's hope they can
keep this pace up and start some heavy touring. If this is your first
introduction to Clouds Taste Satanic
I STRONGLY suggest you pick up their debut “To Sleep Beyond the
Earth” as well, because it is also excellent.’
‘Your Doom Has Come’ CD//DD//LP track
listing:
1). Ten Kings
2). One Third of the Sun
3). Beast from the Sea
4). Out of the Abyss
5). Dark Army
6). Sudden...Fallen
The Review:
The
opening bars of “Ten Kings” let you
know right off the bat what you are in for. A slow building menacing riff opens
up into a doomy vista stretching across the horizon. The drums kick back into a
harder Sabbath-esque mid paced riff. The second
track “One Third of The Sun” picks
up the tempo a bit with a chugged rhythm figure over bouncing drums. What would
function as a chorus on this song is a pretty awesome southern-sludge riff with
a nice lead. By far the shortest song on the album clocking in at 4:24,
this might be the strongest song with a perfect head nodding flow and I'm sure
it crushes live. The third track “Beast From The Sea” is a huge epic riff salad that moves through
huge amounts of sonic territory through its length. My favorite part of the
track is about 2:17 in Clouds Taste Satanic
does a nice tremolo picked lead over a moving sludge riff and bouncing drums.
Another highlight of this track is the pedal tone riff bridge section that
covers most of the fifth minute. Some enlightened song writing displayed here.
“Out of the Abyss”
moves into some more rockish territory with some Kyuss
style riffs around the midway point. Continuing this trend the fifth track “Dark Army” also has some more stoner
rocky fast sections interspersed with some heavy atmosphere. What really shines
on these two tracks is some excellent rolling drumbeats with perfect changes
throughout the different feels. The solo near the end of “Dark Army” is fantastically spacey and recalls some of Earth's more western feels. A touch shorter then it could
be but still really cool. The final track “Sudden...Fallen”
begins with an eerie building riff that moves into a hardcore influenced stoner
riff. I really like how the band brings the opening riff back into a movement
into the final section which begins with a riff that sounds somewhat familiar
to something Unida did off of their last unreleased yet leaked
album “The Great Divide.” A fitting
end for a great release.
The
production on “Your Doom Has Come” sounds improved with a
little more expansive stereo mix and a slightly improved balance on the
instrumentation. The tones here remain similar to their last release except a
touch better sounding reverb when used on the lead guitar. In addition, the
rhythm playing and rhythm section feels a bit tighter on this release. Overall
a very strong follow up for Clouds Taste Satanic, releasing
two great albums within such a short time-frame of each other is an impressive
feat and let's hope they can keep this pace up and start some heavy touring. If
this is your first introduction to Clouds Taste Satanic I
STRONGLY suggest you pick up their debut “To Sleep
Beyond the Earth” as well, because it is also excellent.
‘Your Doom Has Come’ is available here
