Artist: ISOLE
Album: THRONE OF VOID REISSUE (CD O-CARD)

Release date: 09.12.2022
EAN/UPS: 8715392230820
Media type: CD

Isole’s classic impressive Doom Metal debut album finally available on CD again!

If you think Doom Metal to be nothing but depressing lyrics and vocals, minor keys, and tempos slower than a bulldozer you are probably right. Doom Metal is infamously notorious for being extremely listener-unfriendly, mainly for its plodding nature. Riffs are repeated an abundance of times, and the music makes you feel like you will fall over in exhaustion at parts. However, there are some doom bands that break this mold. Older My Dying Bride, newer Candlemass and some Cathedral are quite a bit more listenable; they have interesting song patterns and melodies, and untouchable vocals in places. Isole falls into this pattern as well.

If one had to compare Isole on this album with one band it would have to be Solstice, the UK’s greatest Doom band. “Throne of Void” reminds the Solstice classic “Lamentations”, only crushingly heavy and with better vocals. One would even have to give Isole a slight edge in songwriting overall. The sound, the riffs, everything here is first-rate, and the atmosphere is magisterial and grandly bleak. This is a big album, with big songs and a big sound, but it never slips into self-indulgence or wastes time with interludes or throwaway tracks.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. Autumn Leaves
2. Dreams
3. Demon Green
4. Throne of Void
5. Insomnia
6. Bleak
7. Life?
8. The Beyond (Bonustrack)
9. Beyond The Black II (Bonustrack)