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90
OAK have injected a myriad of musical influences into Disintegrate‘s sound, so that that although it’s clearly one cohesive whole as an album, there are distinct musical breaks that help to keep things interesting all the way through.
3y
80
There’s enough diversity of style and approach to keep things interesting over its 45 minutes and the result is an achingly beautiful, emotionally harrowing musical voyage that will leave marks on your eternal soul.
3y
Acknowledging that death-doom is not my thing, I can at least tell that this project hits both genre marks very well. It's an experience from beginning to end, delivering an excellent doom album early in 2023. I just wish it was a genre I enjoyed more!
Oak deliver a tasty slab of funeral doom that embraces the genre in all its forms, by taking inspiration from the classic standardbearers of the genre and mixing in the black metal sound of their main band, Gaerea.
It's a single 45 minute track, and that alone should tell you whether this is for you. Funeral doom does not swiftly traverse through styles, it builds atmosphere through it's length, dwelling on one riff or motif just long enough for you to become comfortable (or even tune out), ... read more
The first 25 minutes and final 10 minutes are incredible, but there’s a section that’s about 10 minutes long in the middle there that was kind of a slog for me. I can definitely see myself returning to this album though.
EDIT: I was right, I did definitely end up returning to it a lot. This album FASCINATED me. I previously hadn't really listened to that much from the genre, and I ended up checking out some more albums in the style. The more I listened, the more that the section I ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Disintegrate 44:48 |
Total Length: 44 minutes
