Interview with LL (vocals) and MN (instruments) Interview by Kira Levine www.facebook.com/ConvocationDoom/ Shortly before the release of their sophomore album Ashes Coalesce, we caught up with Finnish duo Convocation to discuss their latest release and more. Please follow and like us:
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Convocation – Ashes Coalesce
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Everlasting Spew Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Seasoned musicians Lauri Laaksonen and Marko Neuman joined forces to create death/doom outfit Convocation. They are set to release their sophomore record Ashes Coalesce on July 3rd, following up 2018’s Scars Across. The band states: “The second…
Façade – The Eternal Dance
Reviewed: January 2020 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes The Eternal Dance is the second full-length release of Dutch six-piece Facade. In keeping with its cover art, the album takes a focus on the life-death cycles of the Hindu goddess Kali. The band explore this life-death cycle through…
Swallow the Sun – When a Shadow is Forced Into the Light
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes I haven’t properly listened to Swallow the Sun since their melodic death-doom debut, so this will be something of an update and education. I have read about their works though: I know that Songs From the North…
Woebegone Obscured – The Forestroamer
Reviewed: September, 2018 Released: 2018, Aesthetic Death Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes It seems like too cliché a criticism to say I find funeral doom dull. It is, after all, a genre based around the idea of slow, repetitive and minimalist doom metal, its very nature is not one meant…
Assumption – Absconditus
Reviewed: June 2018 Released: 2018, Everlasting Spew Records Rating: 4.0/5 Review by: Pete Mutant Assumption from Palermo have brought out their first full release, following on from an early demo in 2011 and an EP in 2014’s ‘The Three Appearances’. The two piece act formed of David (drums) and Giorgio…
Convocation – Scars Across
Reviewed: April, 2018 Released: 2018, everlastingspew.com/ Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson Apparently, Convocation began life as an out and out Death Metal entity before moving into a doomier territory. The band are comprised of LL (also a member of Desolate Shrine) and MN (also a member of Dark Buddha Rising), they…
Doom Over London @ The Dome and Boston Music Room, Tufnell Park
Doom Over London @ The Dome and Boston Music Room; Tufnell Park, London April 4th 2015 Words by Ann Sulaiman Five years down the line, Doom Over London has already become an established festival in the capital. Despite competition overseas from the likes of Inferno and Roadburn, a great deal…