Boston’s Innumerable Forms have been steadily carving out a name for themselves since 2007, specializing in a strain of death doom that feels less like a stylistic choice and more like a natural force. Their third full-length album, Pain Effulgence, continues that legacy with an unflinching mix of death metal’s brute strength and doom’s oppressive atmosphere.
I’ll admit upfront: doom metal has never been a personal favorite of mine. For all its technical prowess, the ... read more
An enjoyable enough death-doom album, but it lacks originality and something special to make it stand out, The guitar work is nice at times and so is the production but for an album like this, i feel blast beats dont really work here as they overpower the doom element on this album i feel doom and death metal should be kept separate because doom is slow and death is fast and if both elements are in a song they clash with each other and doesnt make it sound too nice, its a very safe release and ... read more
There's literally nothing new to the sound but it's done in such a high standard that it is impossible not to have fun with it. It's a bread and butter Death/Doom but the bread is homemade and the butter is those expensive restaurant ones. Hell yeah.
| 1 | Impulse 4:34 | 89 |
| 2 | Indignation 3:45 | 87 |
| 3 | Blotted Inside 4:02 | 89 |
| 4 | Dissonant Drift 4:54 | 82 |
| 5 | Ressentiment 3:05 | 80 |
| 6 | Overwhelming Subjugation 2:49 | 87 |
| 7 | Pain Effulgence 5:02 | 84 |
| 8 | Austerity and Attrition 6:59 | 91 |