Album Review: Grief Collector - From Dissension to Avowal (2019)
Today, I'll invite you on a journey through grief. We will experience grief via five steps. Those steps are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Fortunately, we will not be alone on this journey. Guidance is musicked by Minneapolis-based band Grief Collector, a three-piece group of musicians from the Doom Metal universe. For half an hour Grief Collector's first album presents the five steps of grief via a halting, massive and versatile Progressive and Doom Metal atmosphere. Classic Doom passages heavily stomp through thick swamps of deep and dark riffing. Meanwhile, both rhythms and melodies convey a strong impact from Progressive Metal . Further, there is this gloomy and horresque air leading through "From Dissension to Avowal" created by clattering sounds in the background the interposing of Death Metal -like grunts. As mentioned before, the three members of Grief Collector are no unknown people in the world of Doom Metal and beyond. The hea...