{"id":19348,"date":"2014-06-13T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=19348"},"modified":"2014-06-26T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T16:13:59","slug":"album-review-profetus-as-all-seasons-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-profetus-as-all-seasons-die\/","title":{"rendered":"PROFETUS – As All Seasons Die (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROFETUS
As All Seasons Die<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSvart (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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As the opening strains of the church organ begins, I feel as though I\u2019m wandering through ashen, crooked tombstones on an autumnal eve, merely accompanied by the dying embers of a rustic October bonfire and a carpet of orange leaves. Yep, Profetus is a doom metal band to conjure such gothic images as they offer four tracks of hazy gloom in the form of their third opus As All Seasons Die<\/em>. <\/p>\n

This latest monolith is the third slab of weight from this Finnish act that has been crushing bones since their 2006 inception. Now, while I can get bored to death by some doom metal \u2013 especially that which oozes into sludgier climes \u2013 Profetus are one band I can enjoy listening to, however slow or aching they may be. <\/p>\n

The man who fronts such a plod is vocalist A. M\u00e4kinen, who is one of three axemen within the band \u2013 the others being M. M\u00e4kel\u00e4 and D. Lowndes respectively. The drums of doom are supplied by V. Kujansuu, but the real atmospherics of this incredible record are provided by organist M. Nieminen, who is a gargantuan force when it comes to lacing the hymns of gloom with that crescendo of woe. <\/p>\n

After the opening instrumental strains of \u2018The Rebirth Of Sorrow\u2019, the band really pummels with slow intensity as \u2018A Reverie (Midsummer’s Dying)\u2019 emerges from the mist like some supernatural force big enough to swallow a cathedral! This is truly epic doom metal that is lumbering for sure, but never does it tire the listener. Instead, in its grandiose nature, it exists like some unknown presence that is so vast, complex and terrifying that it\u2019s something we\u2019d rather not think about until it comes. <\/p>\n

The rainy gurgle acts of M\u00e4kinen acts as nothing more than another instrument ascending from the peat bog. The drums refuse to clatter; instead, they just pound, one concrete step at a time, and are only broken up by the organ that heaves and wheezes until three-quarters the way through it is allowed to come into its own. If you\u2019ve ever stood in an immense cathedral and been overawed by its history and architecture, then Profetus is the soundtrack to this experience. <\/p>\n

\u2018Dead Are Our Leaves Of Autumn\u2019 takes me back to that drizzly graveyard of forgotten, cracked gravestones, and that pallid sky. The guitar is merely a fuzzy churn as M\u00e4kinen narrates his prose to a chime of crushing drum and organ hum. Again, it\u2019s a track that heaves more than anything, its purest doom completely bereft of any pace, but every now and then a melancholic guitar worms its way through the damp soil like a snake making its way through bracken. I can smell the leaves that have been caressed by the dew, I can hear the crow perched upon the church spire, and as the bell tolls the 15-minute ooze of \u2018The Dire Womb Of Winter\u2019 makes its presence known; a towering, rolling black gluey silt-like substance that engulfs pastures green, and smothers the ears like a blanket. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s truly mournful yet never ever depressing as with sullen grace it bends the old oak beams which creak under the strain, and with those eerie moans it\u2019s as if a horde of black spectral monks are spilling from the catacombs and fleeing in terror from the unnameable that is Profetus. This is dooooooomm metal, and I needn\u2019t whisper another word for fear of being suffocated by this leviathan.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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