Take for example this passage from Suffer a Martyr's Trial: The lyrics are incredibly poetic and even majestic at times. Lyrically, A Caress of the Void treads themes of death and the afterlife. Think Ahab except the drums are a little bit more up-tempo and the vocals not quite as deep. Then A Caress of the Void truly begins, a journey of absolute powerful emotion. The album starts off discordant with a clean riff chiming through. Haunting clean riffs overlap simple distorted riffs and almost painfully slow drums.Īs most fans of the genre know, listening to any funeral doom album takes a lot of patience and many listens to truly appreciate. 18 years later the band has stayed true to their roots. They are well known however in the doom/funeral doom metal scene (although I confess it wasn't until recently I discovered the band from a good friend here on Sputnik) creating music since 1992 (as Funereus). So what sets Evoken apart from the pack? Well, for starters they are one of few American doom metal bands still plowing along and creating crushingly depressing music today. We've heard this all before in Ahab, Ataraxie and Swallow The Sun. The slow, crushing downtuned guitar riffs, giant cymbal crashes and extremely guttural vocals. They combine all the elements of great funeral doom into one amazing package. You search for music which can match the bottomless depths of these emotions within.Įvoken is your band. You need something to abolish the sadness and bring you catharsis. The bleak despair within your soul is almost too much to bear.
You probably envision vast arctic wastelands, a snowstorm, raging, violent, threatening to consume the land as far as the horizon. Review Summary: You're sitting in a snowstorm, raging and violent, threatening to consume the land as far as the horizon.