Quietus

'Quietus' is less an album and more an endless, coil-shaped, descending staircase.

It takes a lot for funeral doom to captivate me, and Evoken usually fail in this regard over the long term… but not here.

Combining death doom riffage, gorgeous and unsettling strings, spellbinding synths and gothic passages that almost add a voluptuous tone to the crushing atmosphere, this record ranks among my all-time favorites of the genre; I’ve currently rated this the same as ... read more