Not a Gleam of Hope / Comatose Vigil

Stygian Crypt Productions' sub-label, Marche Funebre, is of course named for Chopin's famed composition of the same name. It does not therefore take the proverbial rocket scientist to deduce what their specialty is. Debut signees Comatose Vigil are a funeral doom band, and these Russians play doom at a snail's pace. Even if it was played at twice the speed, it would still be agonizingly slow. The lethargic riffs generate a heavy and oppressiv...

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