THE FALL OF EVERY SEASON – From Below
 
Label: Aftermath Music
Release: April 20  2007
By: BRT
Rating: 7.5/10
Time: 47:48
Style: Doom Metal
URL: The Fall Of Every Season
 

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.