Evoken are the custodians of Funeral Doom. Imagine Black Sabbath played at 33”, that’s funeral doom. Slow, meticulous and full of malignant intent, it is the antithesis to metal’s obsession with speed. Having been doing this since 1992, this is album number seven and their first for seven years. It signals a return to their earlier astute and minimalistic sound and is a wonderfully evocative maelstrom of glacial delivery. The riffs are slow and precise, and it is a magnificently eerie and atmospheric record that just reeks of evil intent.

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