35. Conan - "Evidence of Immortality"

It’s doom o’clock on the list as here come Liverpool’s finest exponent of harsh thumbing doom. Conan have a formula and for five albums they have stuck rigidly to it. They may not have moved on particularly within their sound, but when they do this so well, does it really matter? 

“Evidence of Immortality” is an embarrassment of dark, luscious riches. The riffs are heavy and pulsating but also beautifully rendered. There is something divinely wonderful about the stark minimalism of this album. Everything is stripped back to its bare minimum and there is a primal beauty to its stark austerity. 

There has been numerous examples on this list of people playing with the concept of doom. Sexy doom, melodic doom, doom n’roll. Well this is just old skool communal garden doom, and it’s rather rather special.