Pale Cremation’s debut album, “Grimoire,” is a psychedelic doom journey through a trippy and heavy world of occult themed lyrics. The one-man doom band from Cleveland, Ohio cranks out some tasty jams of glorious doom with enough reverb and blasphemy to knock a god fearing Midwest granny off her porch.
The album is rough, raw and pays homage to classic doom metal acts while still offering its own unique flair of savage riff filled debauchery. I like the heavily distorted and fuzzy sound of the guitars which adds such a groovy yet sinister element. The album begins with a blasphemous Lovecraft inspired sermon and jumps into the fiery second track, “The Serpent Mounds.” There is an emphasis placed on loud and bombastic riff compositions to where you feel each guitar and bass note hit you square in the gut.
Throughout the album songs like, “Bastard Legions of the Devil,” and “Paimon, 8th King of Hell,” decimate your eardrums and deal out these monolith sized helpings of doom by never losing that pulverizing sound. The instrumental pieces on this album are also extremely well composed with my favorite being, “Monolith of Phobos.” The song’s dynamic atmosphere is a nice deviation from the other songs off the album and the overall sound creates such a cosmic euphoria that makes you feel like you are drifting into other dimensions.
The final song, “Ceremonial Magicians of the Near East,” is long odyssey of pure doom drawing inspiration from bands like Sleep, Church of Misery and Electric Wizard. As the music flows in a hypnotic rhythm you just never get tired of hearing that main driving riff. The song is simply a really well written piece of music that does not sound sloppy, or comes at you with too many unnecessary parts.
For a one-man band there is a lot to be said about Place Cremation’s, “Grimoire.” I like how this album was written and find that the artist has laid down a solid foundation to continue with more stellar doomy jams. If you are a fan of classic Sabbath like doom that will take you on a trip into smoke filled dimensions with demons and killer riffs, then you need to give this a listen!
Listen to the entire album below:
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