Review by Shane
In an emotional sense, the Doomdeath Metal genre is the most taxing and relentless on one’s soul. The slow, mournful tempos and bleak, yet mountain-like riffs most bands in this ilk use really get to you. I can still remember when I first heard My Dying Bride’s ‘the angel and the dark river’…the depression and suicidal tendencies on that album were like nothing I had heard before. This band, Tennessee’s LOSS, have the afformentioned traits in abundance. One look at the album cover evokes the hopeless strains of slow death you will hear upon spinning this disc. This CD is actually a re-release of the bands cassette demo of the same name originally released on the Japan label Weird Truth Productions. The original demo consists of three songs…starting with the feedback drenched ice-pick in the temple intro ‘coffin nails’, it unfolds into track 2, the 8 minute SLOW bloodletting ‘conceptual funeralism unto the final act (of being)’. The riffs are mournful and evil-melodic and ring out forever along with the low, growling vocals. killer. Track 3, ‘cut up, depressed and alone’ lurches forth at an even slower pace. Nearly ten minutes in length, this track contains a very bleak acoustic passage in between MASSIVE riffs and growls that convey loss, no hope, and a general feeling of DESPAIR. For this re-release a couple of bonus LIVE tracks recorded at ‘the end’ club in Nashville on October 6 2004 have been added. The first is a well done cover of KATATONIA’s ‘brave’ with Lord Imperial von Krieg on vocals. The second bonus track is another original presented live entitled ‘the barebacked burial of a torn angel’. In the sparse black ink drenched booklet you get the lyrics to tracks 2 and 3. This 35 minute album is anything but uplifting, but somehow I still get a cathartic emotional release from the ultra-darkness of this art.
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