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  • Spiritus Mortis

    MH-FIRE065

    Artist: Spiritus Mortis

    Label: Firebox Music

    That self-titled album of the Finnish band Spiritus Mortis has already been reviewed on doom-metal; this 2010 edition however is slightly more substantial as it features 4 extra tracks, what makes the album clocking at 50 minutes. That’s a big hearty dish that you are served with. Spiritus Mortis plays a rich, fat, energizing kind of Heavy Doom Metal; diverse, fluent and quite digestible on top of it all.

    The fact is, the music on display is really catchy, tracing its course between melancholic odes, eerie, almost oriental moods (like in ‘Beyond’), bold Rock-ish attitude, epic chants and more soft, despondent moments. The band knows how to sustain the listener’s attention: they don’t seem to follow any premeditated patterns, it’s all twists and turns for our delight. Headbang, fist in the sky, you won’t escape their irresistible potency.

    This re-release is a welcome initiative; the first edition was already mandatory for all Heavy Doom lovers, this one brings even more dark, brooding, heroic and cunning music. You know what you have to do.
    Bertrand Marchal, doom-metal.com

  • The God Behind the God

    MH-FIRE058

    Artist: Spiritus Mortis

    Label: Firebox Music

    The third album from these Finnish doomlords sees them joined by new vocalist Sami Hynninen (Reverend Bizarre, The Puritan, KLV). There is no further explanation or introduction needed -- doom or be doomed!!!