Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Doom Metal | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 165 / 11-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 6/10 | Label: Autumnsongs | Autor: AS
One year after its self-titled debut album, the Norwegian quartet Mater Thallium presents its successor. "Abandoned By The Sun" is a kind of gothic doom opera that tells the story of a 15-year-old girl who disappears without a trace. The work is devoted above all to the question of what such disappearances do to relatives. The eight new tracks of the band are correspondingly gloomy. The mix of doom, gothic and Scandinavian folk, carried by church organ chords, heavy guitars and vocals, is sometimes brutal, sometimes fragile and offers one or two surprises. It becomes most interesting when Mette Jensen blows her flute and/or reaches for the microphone. This forms a contrast to the somewhat knödelig sounding and therefore habituation-needy vocals of Petter Falk. Despite good approaches, the pieces always lack the last kick. They can't really carry you away with their uniformity. The dull production, which lacks every dynamic that this kind of music needs in particular, contributes its mite to this.
Top Track: Maternal Mortality
