The new millennium ushered in a fresh age of darkness for heavy music. At the beginning of this new era, Catacombs was spewed into existence from the depths of the extreme doom metal underground with the January 1st, 2000 release of debut album “Echoes through the Catacombs”. ‘Echoes’ consisted of just two songs, Consigned to Flames of Woe and the title track, but was over half an hour long. With riffs as slow as cold molasses, plodding drums, and vocals that sound like a subterranean dragon choking on broken glass and gravel, ‘Echoes’ is a journey into a vast sonic labyrinth, winding and meandering deeper and deeper into solitary, choking darkness with every note. This is one of my favorite doom releases, and I still remember getting the CD from Antinomian Records around the year 2006 for Christmas. It’s a simple, but heavy album that channels an excellent atmosphere of gloomy solitude and it feels like being immured underground for centuries.
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"Echoes Through the Catacombs" [+ REMASTERED TRACKS] by Catacombs
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