THE DOOMSDAY CULT
Samarithans Of Misery
(self-financed)
21:16min

Great demo, guys!!! Swedish Doom-Maniacs THE DOOMSDAY CULT’s first cassette release is absolutely fantastic, a professional and powerful production executed by ex-MARDUK member Devo Andersson and a wonderful layout that reminds of the Middleages and so perfectly fits to the thematic direction of “Samarithans Of Misery” – the Great Pestilence. The song material is – not very surprising for Doom Metal – slooooow, heeeaaaavy and especially in the grandiose ‘Year Linia Pestis 1347 / Into The Fog’ quite epic. To me the whole thing often sounds like a mixture of CANDLEMASS and SAINT VITUS, but with an own feeling. The guitar work is not very technical, but effective and definitely has the right feeling and groove, that makes all those classic Doom bands simply unforgettable. The vocals vary between raw / aggressive and melodic / suffering passages, and hereby create an unique contrast, that is the original element in THE DOOMSDAY CULT’s sound. Although I think that the melodic vocals could be a bit more emotional and intense, but that is all I could find in terms of criticism. The last of the three songs – ‘The Sea Of Deceitfulness’ is a real catchy Doom Metal-song, that builds up on a nice melodic riff and simply won’t leave my head, really great!!! THE DOOMSDAY CULT will hopefully get a deal or release more demos like this, already this is one could have been released on CD. “Samarithans Of Misery” is fantastic Doom Metal, you can really hear that these Swedish Doomsters not only know what good Doom Metal is about, but love it as well!!! In addition to that THE DOOMSDAY CULT deserves to be honored with the award for the “best looking info paper”, which looks very medieval – killer!!! Anyone who loves bands like PENTAGRAM, SOLITUDE AETURNUS or the ones I named before, should check out this awesome demo, “Doom Shall Fucking Rise!!!” Unfortunately they forgot to put a contact address on the cassette cover, so I can only tell you the Email address: the_doomsday_cult@hotmail.com

Stefan Franke

Stefan Franke

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