THERGOTHON Stream From The Heavens LP

THERGOTHON Stream From The Heavens LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
Here's the latest vinyl edition of Thergothon's classic album of glacial funeral doom, on 180 gram vinyl...
A classic album of extreme doom, Thergothon's genre-defining 1994 album Stream From The Heavens is finally back in print from Peaceville, and any doom metal collection that's missing this can finally fill the void. When these Finnish kids decided to start a Lovecraft-obsessed death metal band but slow it down to a tectonic crawl slower than almost any other band before them, they inadvertently kicked off an entire aesthetic that would later become known as "funeral doom". Hearing Stream almost fifteen years after it came out, it's wild how weird and avant-garde this still sounds. Compared to bands that would follow in their footsteps (Evoken, Hierophant, Mournful Congregation, Esoteric, etc.), Thergothon's songs really weren't all that exceptionally long, and only half of the album breaches the seven minute mark. But they did play so...fucking...slow. Not only that, but these glacial deathdoom riffs are smeared in a weird phased effect and stretched out to the point that you feel like you're stuck in a k-hole when listening to songs like "Yet The Watchers Guard" and "Who Rides The Astral Wings". The tinny toy Casio keyboard sounds and prog-influenced keyboard melodies that the band use on Stream From The Heavens also contribute to the gluey hallucinogenic atmosphere, as do the parts where songs break off from the stately depresso-doom into stumbling acoustic folk or pastoral ambience, and the vocals are a quirky combination of insanely guttural death metal growls, mournful chanting and dramatic spoken word passages.
With as many bands that have ripped off Thergothon’s sound, you'd think that there would be more of them that sound as weird as this, but that's what makes this album so crucial in the pantheon of death/funeral doom. Thergothon were following their own mutant muse, and this disc continues to hold up as a masterpiece of doom extremism. The members went on to a variety of other projects, with Niko Skorpio continuing to fall under the watchful eye of C-Blast with his various electronic projects (our favorite of which is still the crazed digi-grind/electronica of Reptiljan), but none of 'em ever returned to anything resembling the stentorian majesty of Thergothon.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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