The Grey Skies are wet with tears; the last recording made with David Gold (RIP) takes on a new, powerful Romantic dimension while still retaining their bitter cynicism and expert musicianship.
There’s a particular twinge of grief that threads itself through this record – of course, the untimely passing of
David Gold was as saddening as it was sudden. As he mournfully and sonorously rattled off his desperate words, screaming
“Only death is real!” one’s eyes feel pregnant with tears and almost nothing can stem the flow. The heinous crime the Earth has committed in prematurely claiming our dark dreamer only serves to intensify this monochromatic vista of doom metal, like a portrait washed in rivers of hatred and modern bile, dripping with venomous, jarring guitar lines.
Read the review over at Metal as Fuck.