Buried At Sea

What a hellacious piece of doom this is! Buried at Sea, like all other doom metal bands, are slow, dirge-like and heavy as balls. But they bringe other sonic colors to the palette. Buried at Sea is to doom metal as Godspeed You! Black Emperor is to instrumental post-rock. Now dont get carried away or all excited thinking this is going to be some artsy form of doom. No way, Jose, this is still doom. Doom trolled from the bottom of the ocean floor, lying in blackness for eons and only now being drudged out of murky depths and put to tape for you sonic displeasure. The riffs are drowned in devastating distortion and bass fuzz and the vocal sound like they come from a mouth that has been clogged with seaweed and sand forever. This is doom with extremely harsh vocals. The bit they add to the mix that makes them unique are the slow unwinding passages that echo their name. In between crushing your skull under leagues of aquatic pressure they visit the sounds of drowning and drifting, occasionally using samples like the sound of the buoy in the untitled Track Two. It keeps the album from being too ovewhelming and fits very well within the theme of the band. Three tracks play together as one whole and you couldnt have it any other way in the sea of doom.



If your doom fix wasnt slaked with Migration, then move right along to She Lived For Others But Died For Us, a two song "EP" featuring one new track, named after the title and a dirty blackened cover of Eyehategod's "White Nigger". The title track is more of the same lurching doom with ambient passages that is found on the full length. The cover is actually pretty good, maintaining the sludge sound of their forefathers and actually producing an even denser version of the aformentioned track.

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