58. Godthryme - 'Reflections'

Founding member (and stalwart of Classic Doom acts My Dying Bride and Solstice) Hamish Glencross describes “Reflections” as a 'love letter to doom in its entirety; its history and its present state’. He couldn't be more right (unsurprisingly as he wrote and recorded the darn thing) as this is the entire forty odd year history of Doom Metal distilled into 54 mins and 33 seconds. 

It has slow mournful stuff, it has pulsating slabs of pure unadulterated heaviness and it has hypnotic waves of sonic distortion. It has every flavour of Doom available, however rather than come across as an ill-fitting compilation it actually works. There is passion at play here. The key words in the quote above are ‘love letter’. This is an album created by musicians utterly besotted with the music that they are immersed into. The adoration and the zeal flows through every note in this album. It is indeed a labour of love and that is what makes it so exhilarating.