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Watching From A Distance (CD)
Watching From a Distance is filled with magisterial, crushingly beautiful Doom riffs, emotional vocals, and the bleakest, most depressing lyrics you can imagine. Maybe they broke up the first time to avoid suicide, as this is some powerful evocation of heartbreak and emotional desolation. Listening to this all the way through is so painful it's hard to do it all at once. The melodies are slow, tragic, and uplifting all at the same time. Walker's vocals aren't operatic, but they are well-done and clean with a degree of emotion that's hard to bear up close. If you like realistic, depressing lyrics then this will be your thing, but I have to say they hit a little close to home for me. If Doom is your thing, then this will own you, as no other album has depressed me this much. Even if you do not like Doom, some of the most achingly beautiful guitar playing in metal history is on this album, and you should hear it at least once. An artistically uncompromising and ...
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Similar artists: GRAVIATORS, BLACK OATH, GALLOW GOD
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