With their
label debut O Solitude at the propably
most established label for doom-highlights PANTHEÏST
could really impress me in 1993, so it was a duty for me also
to check out the follower Amartia,
hoping that another masterpiece would be offered to me.
Amartia
is a concept-album that deals with the seven deadly sins, what
can be heard within the rather sacral musical appereance. Again
the dragging, towing parts that can drive one or another into
insanity reign, again the band tries to press a sea full of
sadness and melancholy into one CD, again the feeling of despair
is imposingly arranged . Although the album can`t really tie
up to the forerunner, whereupon I can`t really edge down to
tell what it lacks of. One reason may be, that here the band
didn’t work as complex as on O Solitude,
and so it lacks of variety, that adds to the fact, that no real
atmosphere can be built up, especially when the album lasts
for 77 minutes. Of course Doom isn’t the kind of music,
whose masterpieces are stamped by variety, although I can’t
really find another reason why the spark, that the band once
aroused, can`t really jump over here. It`s a pity, but all I
can do is hoping that the next album will have more effect on
me.