Uncomplicated, unagitated and yet warm-hearted doom metal with lava riffs and a monotonous repetition strategy, which is not exhausted up to the excess, is always welcome. This may not really match the spring with rising temperatures and melting snow, but at APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE the melancholic hearts of the Doom-Heads melt like ice in the sun with heavy guitars and beautiful melodies.
During the epic My Heart Is Leaving Here, the quartet spans its tensions with successful, sometimes polyphonic vocal arrangements and hardly perceptible, but nevertheless existing dynamics, which is also reflected in the occasionally interspersed accusing voice. Wonderfully harmonic guitars alternate with tenacious riffs, steaming solos sweep through the foggy soundscape and provoke a feeling somewhere between sublimity and melancholy.
Like a dark, deep and eerie stream, the epic compositions drift away and invite you to a relaxed, sometimes very calm, sometimes even slightly turbulent ride. Life is sometimes so hectic and stressful that a record like From Gold To Ash for relaxed leaning back and contemplative drifting away is just the thing. The calm approach turns out to be both an advantage and a crux of the album, because some listeners will complain about the lack of action.