Reviews for "A Funeral for Things Undying"

Doom-Metal.com, written by Bertrand Marchal

This is some quite strange music; like an occult gothic cabaret where the crowd would be composed of cadaverous people drawn to a last dance by funerary, decadent dirges. Strange indeed are the slow pulsations of the drums and the sad melodies at the piano that sounds like a dusty 18th century harpsichord when it doesn't turn into a poor wannabe organ.

The eerie leads bear almost mischievous features that I can't hear without thinking of Polanski's Dance of the Vampires. This is dark and ironic, like the romantic metaphor of a dying world: creepy and shadowy. Bitter. And yet, behind that Funeral Doom veil—twisted gurgling growls, whispered vocals, misty, softly droning waves, heavy guitars—you have that omnipresent keyboard that sounds like an antic detuned piano, which inevitably, by its simplistic use, propels you in a dark gothic tale full of all sorts of deviant children, sardonic ghouls and other grotesque figures.

These images are so evident to me that I can only find the black and white photo of a stone angel on the cover a very poor translation of the rather chaotic realms The Liquescent Horror inhabits.

A Funeral for Things Undying is a convincing and original Funeral Doom album. I totally recommend it, of course.

Born in Blood, unknown author

Excellent. Hammed up B-Movie Horror flick meets Heavy Gothic Doom meets proggy piano lead Dark Metal. Serious enough to make it credible, but still immensely entertaining and at times amusing. There's deep cookie monster vocals, there's sour piano plinky-plonking, there's synthesisers washing minor keys about. It's done so well. Very addictive. I don't know what these guys look like but I picture uncle Fester on drums, Morticia on piano, Gomaz on organ, and Lurch on vocals.