Athenaeum Of Sin Reviews

As soon as the play button is pressed, the opening track, Yearning For Seagull Wings, welcomes the listener with slow, dark beats and melancholy riffs. Following close behind is a build-up of warm-aggression and slow sections, a strong feeling of yearning for something, but lost at the same time.

Following suit with the seven remaining songs, where the band mixes multiple influences, collecting sounds from various musical styles. Such as; the slow tempo of ‘funeral doom’, the rhythmic heaviness of ‘doom metal’, the depressive and melancholy feel of depressive black metal and progressive sections of ‘prog metal’, and the taint of some ‘death metal’ aggression. Thus creating this hybrid dark metal style, that continues to evolve.

Simultaneously, the album has routing for more of an instrumental release (omitting the vocals, where the last two releases feature vocals), allowing a more significant development and expressiveness of the instrumental voices. With additional elements, such as various moods, tempos, keyboard sections & acoustic guitar which are added and played at the right moment, guitar, and drum work are well arranged, tight and composed, topped with the deliverance of fruit of art devilmanship. Solid and well-polish production both in sound and music (where the band itself has carried out the recording, mixing, and mastering of the work). That genuinely captures this band member personally feelings with each song and damps with darkness and sorrow atmosphere of being isolated, possessed and angry.

Doldrums Combustion lyrics, which are both dark and melancholy and a concept on cars, where each song has its artwork of its own; track one Yearning For Seagull Wings  (known as a falcon-wing door or an up-door, is a car door that’s hinged at the roof rather than the side), track two Under a Fender (are pieces of bodywork on the fender that cover the upper portions of the rear tyres), track four Heartless Triuph (Triumph was a British car and motor manufacturing company in the 19th and 20th centuries). Track five Mulsanne Straight (The Mulsanne Straight (Ligne Droite des Hunaudières in French) is the name used in English for a formerly 6 km (3.73 mi mi) long straight of the Circuit de la Sarthe around which the 24 Hours of Le Man’s auto race takes place & claimed the lives of eight drivers). Track six Hideaway Headlights (a form of automotive lighting and an automotive styling feature that conceals an automobile’s headlamps when they are not in use) and track seven Iconic Flyline (The unmistakable silhouette of the Porsche 911, characterized by its iconic Flyline).

Doldrums Combustion provides eight equally solid, strongly composed songs.