Warground - The Agony of Profound Loss
Release Date - 3/5/2013
Country of Origin - Canada
Genre - Funeral Doom Metal/Drone/Ambient
Number of Tracks - 7
You want to know the cool part of being tapped into the underground metal scene? You tend to make friends with the bands or at least some of the members of a band. With this you get to know about stuff currently happening with the band as well as form an actual friendship. Now when you throw in the reviewer aspect, you also tend to get music for both listening and reviewing pleasure. It’s always a joy when you get a new album in the mail from one of these bands and it makes you feel all special considering they’re usually limited to a few copies. So basically it’s a helluva a cool relationship (who needs a significant other when you gots friends online to send you music nobody knows about?).
Randal Thorson is one of those types of pals I’ve made within the scene. We met on the always informative (and equally asshole filled) site Metal Archives. We became chums and have become comrades in the ever so popular genre of heavy metal that we are both very passionate about. Late last year/early this year, Randal was kind enough to send me some of his band Warground’s releases, as well as a Suicide Forest tape. The intention of this being for me to give them all a good review and give him some promotion. Well it’s time to finally start getting these puppies reviewed (as well as lower my stack of metal albums to review that I’ve been given/asked to review). So thus I present to you all Warground’s first full length album The Agony of Profound Loss.
Tracklisting
1. In the Absence of Light
2. By the Hand of God
3. The Agony of Profound Loss
4. Ties That Will Never Fray
5. Your Holiness Has Failed
6. The front
7. Funeral Winds of Sorrow
Being that Warground is a doom metal band, you’d expect the music to match that very dark, bleak, and well doom like feel. Well worry not true believers, for it does indeed have that feel. The album has an atmosphere to it which is and should be present with any doom metal record. A listen to this at night is quite fitting, as the darkness of the outside world mixed with the atmosphere of the music can paint a beautiful picture. Of course that doesn’t mean you can only listen to this at night, it still is a great piece if listened to during the day, it retaining all of the moody goodness in it. It’s just a case where night can truly suck you into a world and help engross you even more with the music here.
Music wouldn’t be music though if it did not have somebody to play it all, and Randall does a good job at playing it all. Everything sounds correct and fits well with the genre that the music belongs to. Along with the great musicianship of the instrumental bits come some great vocals. Like it’s instrumental brethren, the vocals are performed very well and help build the atmosphere of the album. All around, Randall did a great job in performing both the instrumental and vocal bits of the album.
The quality is what you would expect from an underground release, which isn’t a bad thing. While it’s true these types of releases can feature some shitty quality, I’m usually forgiving of them since there done at home a good chunk of the time. I only really complain about it if I can’t hear a damn thing at all. Luckily that is not the case here. The quality while typical is still good and everything is audible. Well except the bass a good chunk of the time, but that’s typical in metal. Poor bass. So in the end the quality of the album is as good as the music on the tape.
At the end of the day, The Agony of Profound Loss is a great album from a really great band. It’s some real kick ass music to it which is some of the best music I’ve heard from the underground scene. The quality of the album is good in that always fun homemadey sort of way, and the tracks flow into one another nicely. All around, it’s a great album and if you ever find yourself a copy I’d say pick it up. You won’t be disappointed.
A +
Comments
Post a Comment