Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 02/09/2016
Label: Burnout Planet Records
This
is cracking stuff and a worthy addition to the ever expanding doom canon, "Three
Dials”is Crushingly heavy and really fucking noisy, "Lapse” features some
swinging grooves to go with the slothful doom sounds, “She Died Long Ago” is a
slow trudge through the darkest of doom- and echoes Candlemass rather than Conan
in its approach. A fine debut then and an indication that there are great
things to come from Asatta, who have positioned themselves up there with modern
doom's elite.
‘Spiralling
Into Oblivion’ CD//DD track listing:
1.Three Dials (08:31)
2.Lapse (06:38)
3.1678 (04:04)
4.She Died Long Ago (09:21)
5.Breath of Kali (07:22)
6.Son of the Morning (11:03)
The Review:
Asatta fall into, I guess, the
modern doom category. By that I mean Conan, Slomatics and the more sludge end of the
genre. Hailing from Milwaukee
For
your hard earned money, you get six songs of very decent playing time. The
third track, “1678”, is an anomaly
as it only just goes over the four minute mark (it is a weighty and groove
filled number, mind!)- but most here are well north of that- think eight
minutes or so as an average, so no one buying this will feel short changed.
Rest assured the sound herein in suitably crushing and the performances across
the band match this. “Lapse”
features some swinging grooves to go with the slothful doom sounds- even
injecting a little melody into the sound.
“She Died Long Ago” is a slow trudge through
the darkest of doom- and echoes Candlemass rather than Conan in its approach- with a
rather nifty change prior to the four minute mark. “Breath of Kali” is also a dark listen with lots of spooky goings on
in the instrumentation (theramin in there somewhere?). By the time of the
eleven minute plus “Son of the Mourning”,
the album has shown its hand to great effect. This effective and weighty
finisher demonstrates the trippy side of the band and allows the record to ride
off into the sunset in some style.
It
would be fair to say that I began to enjoy this album as soon as I started
listening to it and repeated listens have only revealed more depths to enjoy.
This is cracking stuff and a worthy addition to the ever expanding doom canon.
A fine debut and an indication that there are great things to come from Asatta,
who have positioned themselves up there with modern doom's elite.
‘Spiralling Into Oblivion”
is
available here
