ETERNAL MOURN – Winds Of Sorrow

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• Bands:
  ETERNAL MOURN
• Duration: 00:22:45
• Available from: 07/20/2026
• Label:

• Terror From Hell Records

Eternal Mourn is a brand new Italian reality that debuts with this “Winds Of Sorrow”, a three-piece EP for approximately twenty-three minutes of music.
The band is made up of members already involved in several rather well-known local groups such as Araphel, Woundead, Extirpation, Funest, Into Darkness, Thulsa Doom and others: seeing the curriculum of the members, we honestly thought that it was a particularly old-school proposal.

However, we had to change our minds at least in part, because the three compositions of this mini show off a decidedly remarkable production that attracted us from the beginning. The genre is actually not particularly modern, but as just said it is supported by clear, powerful and brilliant sounds, especially in the sound of the guitars and in the production of Gabriel's growl: Eternal Mourn, in terms of influences, move in the territory of the doom-death of the late nineties, between Paradise Lost, Anathema, Morgion and Saturnus, as well as showing a notable attachment to the Katatonia of “Brave Murder Day”.
It is therefore sad music, but not desperate, given that the running time in the end is not very high (even by the standards of the genre) and it is the average and sometimes sustained tempos that dominate the economy of the work. The main reference in this is obviously Paradise Lost, but it is possible to say that for now ours do not clone a particular band but rather a sound.
In fact, “Winds Of Sorrow” moves with ease in three particularly well-arranged and rather varied pieces that show off solutions capable of being remembered: the bass in evidence in the final part of “Embracing Tragedy”, the intervention of clean vocals and references to My Dying Bride and Anathema in the title track or the breath decidedly close to the aforementioned Katatonia of the opener “Falling Tears”.

Despite inventing absolutely nothing in a genre that is now extremely codified, our team manages to mix well-known elements in a very pleasant way. In essence, what is missing from “Winds Of Sorrow” does not depend on Eternal Mourn, i.e. the absence of the same amount of time that can offer an identical variety of solutions, skills that we believe our band already have: at the end of the day, what makes this EP a little jewel is the care taken in the arrangements and those small refinements that make the three songs truly convincing.
Let's hope that a full album arrives quickly, it would be a real shame to relegate this first appetizer to undeserved oblivion, given the quality.