Ephemeros
Out on August 20th through Seventh Rule Recordings (CD/digital) and Parasitic Records (vinyl)
If the old saying that “misery loves company” is indeed true, then your sad, depressed ass will be best friends with Ephemeros’ debut album, All Hail Corrosion. Three songs of SLOOOOOW depressing music spread out over forty minutes, it’s the soundtrack to one of those nights you’re reaching for a bottle or hallucinating a life you never lived and/or never fucking wanted.
The sonic heft that Ephemeros pack is one of bowel-shaking, soul-crushing, “insert noun and verb-ing description here” flat out destruction. The harmonies that lace the middle of ‘Stillborn Workhorse’ are enough to make one stare straight into the abyss and dive right at it. Vocal incantations running in circles on the title-track and so forth, there truly is a gut wrenching (see what I did there) sadness all over this album. It’s the mastery of the speed (or lack thereof) which makes this album soar. Playing music this slow takes time and patience. How a drummer can sit and play that few beats per minute is fucking beyond me, but I tip my hat to him.
I can’t sit and truly pick one song on this album that I enjoyed more than one other. When it comes to Doom, I like mine of the funeral breed. Bands like Evoken, Loss, Mournful Congregation etc. etc, those bands are the ones of pure sonic heft and slit-wrist humility that Ephemeros are bound to be compared to. I just personally don’t see a problem with that: those bands are all great and masters of the haunting demon that is Funeral Doom (if that is the tag you wish to use). Don’t believe me? Listen to album closer ‘Soilbringer’ and try not to get chills up and down your spine around the five minute mark, and that’s only a third of the way through the song. Ephemeros is a band worthy of comparison to the veterans, and with time (slow, painstaking time), they should be on your list of bands to go to when you’re playing that game of Russian Roulette all by your lonesome.
You can grab Ephemros’ All Hail Corrosion on CD/digitally through Seventh Rule Recordings and on wax through Parasitic Records, on August 20th. Have a nice day!!!!
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