When your clean vocalist is a classically trained cellist, you ain't going to let that go to waste. Soren Mourne’s cello features heavily across the sophomore effort and is all the better for it. It helps sculpt an ethereal aesthetic that is rich with Gothic darkness. This is a sumptuous and dark album that slowly unfurls. It is heavy and brittle in parts, but it uses the mournful cello well, regularly juxtaposing with the brutality. In all, this is doom that retains its weight with a combination of monolithic density and haunting instrumentation.

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