Vale of Amonition - Immortalizing the Lugubrious, or Those of Evolving Despair

Vale of Amonition

Immortalizing the Lugubrious, or Those of Evolving Despair

January 10th, 2023

The development of Vale of Amonition (Uganda/Kenya) showed their early recordings from around 2010-2013 as the sound of a band finding its way to a type of atmospheric doom that by 2017 was a lot more solid. This new album is the culmination of all those earlier experiences and they are now giving the audience results of the potential shown before. The band nowadays is at that point where they can arrive pretty close to the sounds that they hear in their head. This album is contemporary doom with both somber, melodic vocals and with growling, and there is more of a death doom sound, but they have not gone into the all-out death doom. Death doom tends to be super heavy and sometimes more on the monolithic side, whereas this album keeps more a sense of melody and the somber, melodic singing keeps the music substantially away from the all-growl, no-singing work ethic that particular subgenre. Another area of improvement is the production. If fans had previously heard the band's earlier works and did not like the rawer approach, maybe this new and more polished sound is more to their tastes. Things are getting more interesting in the Vale camp.

Immortalizing the Lugubrious, or Those Of Evolving Despair by Vale Of Amonition

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