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FUNEBRARUM “Beckoning The Void of Eternal Silence”
FUNEBRARUM “Beckoning The Void of Eternal Silence”
By Dr. Abner Mality
There’s nothing silent about this putrid slab of worm-eaten death. Rather, it envelops you in a tidal wave of morbid vibrations and subhuman murmurings. Along with the new GUTVOID, this is death metal done the right way…unashamedly old school yet deceptively memorable.
FUNEBRARUM has been lurking in the catacombs since 1999 yet this is my first encounter with them. They have thus far been content to be in the underground of the underground, but that should change now they are on Pulverised Records. They come from New Jersey and are very much in the vein of East Coast bands like INCANTATION and IMMOLATION. The cavernous tones of rotten death doom flow through every song here, greatly amplified by the sickening growls of Daryl Kahan, who resembles Lasse Pykko of early HOODED MENACE. This guy really sounds like he crawled out of a grave.
The more mid-paced tones of tracks “Into Dark Domains” and “From Rotting Burial Shrouds” have the dark elegance that IMMOLATION possesses. Although there are a lot of bands working this general area, there’s a little something extra in FUNEBRARUM’s songwriting that makes them stick out. They know when to blast, when to lumber and when to add atmosphere, all while keeping that sick edge.One of the best tracks here is “Anhela Odor Mortoruom” (The Adepts), which boasts truly monumental riffs.
They put it all together on the final epic of “The Whispering Cathedral”, where funerary synths give the song a very gloomy feel. This can go toe to toe with the best death metal today and beats out a lot of those new wave OSDM bands that are inexplicably more popular.
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