Hellride Music - The Funeral Orchestra - Feeding the Abyss (Aftermath Music/Eternal Dark Productions)

The Funeral Orchestra - Feeding the Abyss (Aftermath Music/Eternal Dark Productions)
by Chris Barnes
September 7, 2003

The sound of no hope.

Sickenly heavy, lysergically slow and totally hypnotic doom with a reverberating low end that will be heard for centuries as it makes it's way through the cosmos. Apocalyptic Trance Ritual Doom Music indeed. This and Unearthly Trances' Season of Seance, Science of Silence will be in a dead heat to make Hellride Music's 2003 Top Five Albums for Ritual Sacrifice at the end of the year.
The Funeral Orchestra are the last word in cult doom, preferring to compose and perform under a shroud of mystery. They don't identify themselves, and take the stage wearing only form-covering habits and eerie reflective masks. Their website says so little about them that I'm not even sure in which part of the dark recesses of Northern Europe they reside.

Out of the ten tracks here, only "Worship" falls short.... a brief funeral organ-driven piece with the sound of female weeping in the background. A little too over the top for these ears. But the rest of the album is magnificent... mostly guitar-driven hymns paying homage to the God of Slow, interspersed with oddly menacing synth and atonal vocals, with no hint of groove or breakdown.

If total, oblivion-licking doom is your thing, don't miss out on this release. Limited to 999 digipack CDs.

Track Listing
1. Feeding The Abyss
2. Church of TFO (Nocturnal Lust)
3. Worship
4. Apocalyptic Trance Ritual
5. We Are The End
6. Black Orbit
7. Gerdi Malli
8. Döden
9. Master and Slave
10. Church of TFO (live)

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http://www.hellridemusic.com/indexim...kull_spot2.gifVisit The Funeral Orchestra website at www.funeralorchestra.com