“Arcas & Callisto”, the debut full-length from this Canadian duo, is hitting on all cylinders. Filled with eight tracks that will punish your eardrums into a coma-like state, Of Doomed Morale have put aside the average, run-of-the-mill doom/drone record and said “fuck this, we are doing all of this our own way”. Pretty risky if you ask me but with a record that clocks in at nearly fifty-two minutes in length, it’s a ride that you will never forget.
“Helike”, the fourth track on the record, is something of its own kind of monster. With extremely deep tuned guitar riffs, vocals that are filled with gut wrenching screams, it’s a full throttle roller coaster ride that takes no prisoners for a single second. As if the first three tracks weren’t really doing it for me (believe me they were), I feel like I’ve been pushed against a cement wall of spikes and thrown around by this whirlwind fuzz and sound. Not complaining, in the slightest because I can openly admit that I fucking loved it. It isn’t just this one track either, it’s the whole damn record that pulverizes you to death with no sign of stopping to heal those bloody wounds.
It’s pretty simple, do yourself a favor and do whatever it takes to get your hands on this record. Buy it, download it, steal it, kill whomever you must but this record needs to be apart of your collection. I stand strong against that and so will you once you hear what these guys are capable of.
Words: Nicholas Williams
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