Telluric
Effluvium - Dissolution of the Threefold Self
USA/Mexico
Hostile
Records
I have always understood that playing slow music like this is more difficult than most people may realize, since you have to keep the listener trapped. Funeral/Doom cult Telluric Effluvium are no strangers to the craft.
It’s all about the aura the song and/or
album conjures, including what is transmitted through the music. On
this album especially, the structures of the songs are arranged with
delicacy and precision. Mostly it is calm, but sometimes it is
chaotic. Calm can be seen as a long descent into an underworld of
dark emotions. An amalgam of fetid, funereal and melancholic thoughts.
The production and sound is excellent. Of course, being a Funeral
Doom Metal band (by this I mean that the music manifests at a slow
speed) all that quality can be appreciated much better. Beyond the
aforementioned subgenre, I can also hear some Death/Doom segments
when the band steps on the gas a bit, particularly with the vocals,
which seem to be erupting in an ultra deep and unhinged way.
All in all, I
truly enjoyed listening to this true and epic work with its dark and rotten essence. What a way to release a debut album. This is exactly how it
should be done. Recommended! (Catacombs Walker)