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NOVEMBERS DOOM (USA)“The Knowing” [DARK SYMPHONIES] 63.49”
One time I get an extraordinary surprise about doom tunes from a US band called In Ruins (R.I.P.). I though I had to wait lots of years before another doom band coming from USA will be able to release a so outstanding album but I was wrong. After only(!) a couple of years here it comes this CD “The Knowing “ in my postal box. This time is Novembers Doom to make this dark miracle for which I have to thank for.
N.D. is not a new band but if you compare this combo with the father of the death/doom My Dying Bride and Anathema is not either the oldest one. It’s pretty clear N.D. are not playing to create a new genre and songs like “Silent Tomorrow“ and “Last God” are an unequivocal homage to them. But it’s not about the strong influences of these bands on N.D. and on mostly of the doom metal bands followed in the latest years I’m going to talk about. It doesn’t really matter as in this way this band better focalise their music to stir up deeply and moving emotions in all the long album (more than 1 hour)plainly passing from the gloomy slow guitars riffs like in the song “Last God” to the marvellous acoustic passages in “Intervene”, from the stonish notes in “In Memories Past” to affecting piano tunes that introduces “The Day I return” .
Through the mysterious universal law of “nothing is new, everything turns into something else”, they really work out to transform the 7 notes into infinite depressive feelings…
www.novembersdoom.com
Reviewed by Lidia Buscaino