Artist: Fall Of The Idols
Country: Finland
Label: I Hate Records
Formats: CD
Year: 2006
Everyone who saw Fall Of The Idols live on their short tour with Centurions Ghost last April will certainly remember the apathetic and rather schizophrenic vocalist Jyrki Hakomäki, whose presentation leaves little other than concluding he would be ready for the mental institution. The music for this album is kind of likewise. Slow and heavy as fuck with a wicked twist over it.
I Hate Records have this tendency to throw out high-quality releases over and over again. This Finnish weeping willow combo is one of the four that came with the rather belated ‘midsummer doom offesive’ and is the one drawing from that Swedish sound that gave bands like Count Raven their fame. It has the tendency to sound alike and it might bore the shit out of some people searching for more variation, but for the real pessimists amongst us this is only a relief. Monotonous or not, tunes of “The Womb Of The Earth” are heavy and crushing like a diesel roller on a rainy Monday morning, and though there are quite some songs on the album that previously appeared on demo’s I am still surprised by the result of this great album. The only pause in the album is the one-but-last track (“Walk”) which is an acoustic track with an easy-come-easy-go kind of content, including some samples running on the background, a truly nice work and a welcome variation in the ongoing mastodon like heaviness of the rest of the songs.
People into Count Raven, Mirror Of Deception, Saint Vitus and the likes can easily buy this album blind-folded. It might miss a little more ‘bite’ but it certainly fits in what seems the resurrection of traditional doom metal, thumbs up!
