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This Weary Hour - No Hand to Comfort You

Debut album for this band Irish-style doom metal Which brings us back to the glories of the "old" Paradise Lost ("Gothic" and "Draconian Times", to understand), rich with a touch of malice and anguish that helps relax the senses. The album opens with "Algor Mortis," an instrumental piece that would make her look good as background music for the show-style "crime" or "medical drama" (as well as the still image of Laura Palmer wrapped in nylon or on the couch morgue). The song is composed in fact virtually on battery and low following a slow and inexorable, and disturbing: in a word, icy. The same rhythm extends to the second track, "Frozen" is sung in which the shows understood as a growling, throaty and desperate, and the pace continues to be slow and heavy, which goes perfectly with the dark themes conferring a sense of heaviness within. Although the pace remains sluggish, the voice alternates between pure anger in those situations (the cleanest) of sadness: a combination that makes it even more exciting and bad. With "Harvest" the mixture sadness / melancholy becomes more pronounced, thanks to the themes of destruction of all that you have created, almost a hymn to the abandonment of all hope. This is one of the hardest tracks of the entire album (and the longest ever, well 8:36 minutes of malice!), A sort of safety valve for Irish combo (and is also one of my favorites, especially in the days full of nervousness). "The Lure of Prominence" is the second instrumental track, focusing particularly on the interplay of guitar and bass, then focused their sound toward a framework "dark" (a word of which he is abusing you, but quite fitting in this case) , which prepares us for the last song of the album: "The Wordsmith." The long final track unfolds in three parts: the first one (named "Master of the Craft") is an illusion to receive the fruits of what you are creating, seeing with their own eyes that something is, the second part, "Threads Begin to Fray") is more that other instruments, and the illusion becomes real and despair begins to take hold of us. The third and final part, "The Veil Descends" is the ruined post, where all the high hopes were swept away and there is only despair, with the knowledge that late is late for anything else you can do. Just as the words, the music follows perfectly the feelings, emotions and frustrations, becoming angry in his epilogue, accompanied by an excellent Eamonn O 'Neill who gives a display of his excellent vocal abilities. Thus concludes "No Hand to Comfort You", with no train or sweet, as if all the forces we had been abandoned. In conclusion, I dare say that, although the album to consist of only 5 tracks, has explosive potential disruptive. Note that the band shortly after the release of the album, changed its name to People of the Monolith, so if you'd like to search for the album (and I suggest you do so), is much more likely to find it under this name This Weary Hour instead. Darkness! (Samantha Pigot)

(Self)
Score: 80