Hailing from
Trondheim, Norway’s THE FALL OF EVERY SEASON’s
debut album From Below labors along
very slow and almost gothic-like thru 45 minutes. And could be
much better if the underwater-like grunts would not be that pithy
at so many places. In fact THE FALL OF EVERY SEASON
make everything right: they combine early My Dying Bride sounds
with 70’s progrock, rudimentary Folk and much variety, so
that songs with a running time over 15 minutes don’t get
boring at any time.
Tracks are very atmospheric, dense and dark, not too Gothic-like
and kitschy and also don’t drop a Paradise Lost-brick.
Unfortunately the grunts just destroy. Not only the built up atmosphere
but also in matters of the sound of the songs, which lose its
characteristics again. Maybe this one-man project should be enhanced
to a real band with a singer to resolve this weak point.