EDELLOM “Sirens”

Metal Scrap records, 2019

Music: Blackened Gothic Doom Metal

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/edellom/

https://edellom.bandcamp.com/releases

Duration: 60:56 minutes (8 tracks)

Country: Israel

In 2019 Israeli EDELLOM celebrated their tenth anniversary. And I think they sanctified it by releasing their first album…

“Sirens” is material for enthusiasts of atmospheric, heavy and in some meaning even apathetic playing. The music is slow and heavy, like a road roller, crushing everything that comes in its way. However, sometimes there is affective acceleration intensified by the aggression of guitars or growling-scream vocals. Speaking about the vocals… Three types are most often heard. The monstrous death-metal growling, the demonic black-metal scream and the depressing female singing… These vocals perfectly harmonize with the music emphasizing various emotional states, which are usually accompanied by deep feelings of melancholy, anhedonia, aggressive helplessness or also hysterical anger… Of course, the instruments create heavy and monumental guitar riffs, moody keyboard accents and slow funeral tempo with impulsive accelerations…

Here a darkness goes hand in hand with a depression and a melancholy. And an aggression dances with the melody, because there are a lot of gloomy and depressive melodies here, which are accompanied by wild emotional gusts.

Many themes reminded me LEFT HAND SOLUTION, THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, or MY DYING BRIDE…

These types of bands are rare on the metal stage. But what they create totally captivates.

Tracklist:

1. Presentiment
2. Thirst
3. Torn
4. The Black Sorceress
5. Verge
6. Serenitatem ad Mortem
7. Death of Annabelle
8. To Darkness I Fall

Line-up:

David Nardya  –  Vocals & Guitars

Maria Raven – Vocals

Matan Kedar – Bass

Assaf Kassimov – Drums

Rate: 9.0/10