Tribunal – In Penithence and Ruin

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7.5

• Band:
  Court
• Duration: 00:48:21
• Available from: 04/18/2025
• Label:

• 20 Buck Spin

If you are looking for an antidote to the frivolous warmth of the arrival spring, the second album of the courts is the one that's right for you: the forty -eight minutes of “In Penitence and Ruin” are a dense concentrate of doom metal, sadness and majestic fatalism. The Canadian band, born around the Duo Soren Mourne (bass, cello, clean voices)/Etienne Flinn (guitar, Scream/Growl), reappears under the aegis of the 20 Buck Spin as a quintet, and this stable graft of forces is reflected, in a certain way, also in the album, which is even more compact and the fire of the –
The nine songs of which this work takes place do not bring great surprises: the soil in which the courts move is that of the Doom Metal Metal of the My Dying Bride school (also for a certain symphonic and orchestral taste) and a painful company, clearly evident in the Tremebondo trend of “Angel of Mercy” or “The Penitent”, in the granitic solemnity with which the rhythmic part builds the structure, slow and absorbed. of the songs, chiseled now by the guitars, now by the meditobond voice of the cello, now by the crystalline keys of the piano; Yet, along the furrows, a taste for the most classic part of the genre also emerges, especially in the sound and guitar solos of “A wound unhealing”, in the epic trend of “The Sword of the Slain” (but not only) or the clean voice of Soren Mourne along the entire disc, to enrich with a further shade, however stratified songs.
The themes of justice/penance are well accompanied with the imposing musical structures that only certainly doom metal is capable of building, and the courts demonstrate how they know how to handle both the raw materials and the utensils to carve it according to the due canons, and this is clear from the initial “incarnadine”: maybe here and there it seems to be still some rugginosity in linking the most epic/classic parts to the heavier core. They all seem easily overcomable imperfections, in the face of a personality still present and constantly growing, capable of finally going out well on the surface in the final “Beteween the Sea and Stars”.
“In Penithence and Ruin” is a record that we are sure will stay for time in the stereo of the spleen enthusiasts and slowdowns: a valid confirmation for the formation of Vancouver, with many good cues in boccio for the future.

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