Vast Oceans Lachrymose
Epic Doom Metal
2009
| The Band | The Music | The Rest |
| Rain Irving : Vocals | 01. The Furthest Shore (15:51) | Cruz Del Sur Music / CRUZ41 |
| Tom Phillips : Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards | 02. To Wander the Void (6:28) | Runnin' time 42:41 |
| Scott Loose : Guitars | 03. Living Sepulchre (4:00) | |
| Michelle Loose-Schrotz : Keyboards, Vocals | 04. Vessel (7:48) | EAC v0.99pb5 Secure, No C2, Disable Cache |
| Jim Hunter : Bass, Vocals | 05. Vast Oceans Lachrymose (5:02) | Ape Monkey's Audio 4.05 |
| Trevor Schrotz : Drums | 06. Epilogue (3:13) | Winrar 3.90 + 5% Recovery |
| Official | ||
| MySpace | All scans@300dpi | |
| WikipediA | Size : 352MB splitted into 2 files. |
Chronique
(Metal-Integral.com)
Avec son précédent album Of Empires Forlorn (2003), ce groupe américain mené par le guitariste Tom PHILLIPS avait créé une oeuvre magistrale et incontournable en matière de doom épique, mélancolique et mélodique. Vast Oceans Lachrymose reprend peu ou prou les mêmes ingrédients tout en marquant une nette évolution stylistique, le paradoxe n’étant qu’apparent. Il est en effet difficile de continuer aujourd’hui à classifier WHILE HEAVEN WEPT comme un groupe de doom metal, fût-il épique et ultra-mélodique. Tom PHILLIPS a en effet insufflé de la puissance et de la vitesse dans ses compositions, les rapprochant ainsi d’un univers heavy metal plus générique. Pour autant, il n’a pas oublié les lignes de chant très construites, très mélodiques, absolument merveilleuses ; on notera que PHILLIPS a renoncé à occuper le poste de chanteur principal, au profit de Rain IRVING. Pas plus qu’il n’a tourné le dos à l’imbrication de parties ou d’éléments contrastés par rapport à la tonalité métallique d’ensemble : des passages acoustiques de toute beauté et des arrangements de claviers pertinents mettent en exergue une ambition progressive de bon aloi. A aucun moment, l’agencement de ces différents éléments n’apparaît problématique, tout semblant couler de source. Les rythmiques rugueuses et rapides parfois proches du power metal côtoient harmonieusement des harmonies vocales angéliques.
Nous invitons les auditeurs à ne pas morceler l’écoute de Vast Oceans Lachrymose mais à considérer cet album comme un tout indissociable ; l’impression d’effectuer un incomparable voyage auditif et sensoriel s’en trouve décuplée. Aucune composition, qu’elle soit chantée ou instrumentale, courte ou longue, ne s’avère faible, ce qui compense la légère déception provoquée par le recul du registre strictement doom.
Acquisition impérative !
Review
(MetalStorm.ee)
Beautiful.
That was the first thing I thought after I gave this album the first spin. As soon as it begins, you're swept in epic and moody music for a bit more than forty minutes (forty minutes? No kidding, this is indeed a short doom album).
It all starts with "The Furthest Shore", a 15 minutes epic. Fast at times, slow and tragic at others, progressive maybe, it's a really varied and intense song. While it can be reminiscent of some heavy/power metal bands on some keyboards and vocals parts, it's just the mood that puts it miles away… The ship's captain is facing, sadly but resolutely, what is the last storm he'll ever get in.
Hum. I see you frowning in puzzlement. I wrote about something fast. Yes, quite a few riffs on this album are definitively up-tempo, especially on "Living Sepulchre". And While Heaven Wept are considered a doom band, right? 'But doom is slow!' you'll say. Well, generally yes, but doom is also about atmosphere. And (relatively) fast songs like "Living Sepulchre", or "To Wander The Void", clearly have this sad, gloomy, but exquisite, mood. They completely drip with it.
A word about the musicians, maybe? Rain Irving, the new vocalist - well, he's in the band since 2004, but it's the first album he records with WHW - was clearly the man for the job. His soaring, soulful and sad vocals are just short of awesome. Maybe, maybe, one could find some lack of power in them on the fast parts… But man! How beautiful they are!
Of course, there's no gripe to be had about all other musicians, who all play flawlessly, all weaving their parts in these songs to create this delightfully sad mood.
But, all the ravishing praise notwithstanding, I do have a gripe with this Vast Oceans Lachrymose. I mean, starting with such an intense and epic song ("The Furthest Shore") is bound to make all following songs sound a bit lackluster. Even if they are not... Well, the two closing instrumentals do lack a bit of intensity compared to the other tracks.
I'll just use one word to conclude: beautiful, indeed.
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