*Artist: The Knell
*Album: Harm
*Year: 2007
*Genre: Doom/Death Metal
*Country: Israel (Jerusalem)
*Format: mp3@256
*Size: 89 Мб.
Tracklist:
01 - Black Veil (And Promise) [08:11]
02 - Idem [08:07]
03 - Angel Sobbing [06:37]
04 - Jerusalem Frost [08:16]
05 - Encounter Of Flames [7:25]
06 - Harm [5:37]
07 - Winter Shade [7:41]
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Total playing time: 51:52
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Review:
When the piano opens the debut of the Israeli doom band The Knell, you cannot but think to compare it to My Dying Bride. However, it brushes against MDB's style, because there are some actual differences. There are no violins. The speed is slower and more in the funeral doom corner. Sometimes the songs do accelerate to higher speeds but that is rare.
The song structure builds something from nothing and it takes its time. The deep echo guitar, the keyboard that peaks around the corner once in a while and the deep grunt voice are all there. It is all there. You can hear it! But it lacks personality. It's just standard procedure. Hardly any originality. No songs that stick to you and haunt you or caress you or comfort you. The lyrics are beautiful, but with the loose sand riffs, they are meaningless and they drown in their unfulfilled and incomplete composition. They possess it all I am convinced, now learn to juggle it into something amazing to listen to!
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