Description

Black vinyl with insert. Limited 300 copies

The Vein is a Danish misanthropic doom metal act with death metal vocals. The band features some active Danish musicians in the line up (from bands like Altar Of Oblivion, Church Bizarre, Victimizer and ex-Undergang). Their 2014 mini album “Perditions Cold Embrace” is a very pleasant surprise and damn good EP featuring three tracks (one being a short instrumental song) and a great cover version of a Samael song. The two own compositions are excellent, quite varied doom stuff, where they successfully are mixing the grim and cold doom with the death metal influence, but generally it is very much focused on the dark, sorrowful atmosphere. The Void music is quite heavy, mostly slow paced, for sure it is also very melodic, but not in that infantile or sugary way. The always present keyboards are just very good here, as they underline the atmospheric side of this music, just as it’s most preferred. They don’t stand above the guitars. And song like “Rise From The Abyss And Rejoice” is simply excellent. Yes, it’s melodic, it’s slow and melancholic, but never boring… the vocals are harsh, but there are even some clean vocals, which fit great and make the whole song even more memorable. It’s seven minutes long track, perfectly balanced between the heaviness and harmonious, atmospheric side. And “Controlling To Enslave” is even heavier, more epic. Dont know what i should compare them with, maybe “Controlling To Enslave” could be close to early material by Novembers Doom. Then we have the excellent cover version of “Alter The Sepulture”. The Vein really arranged and performed this song perfectly, in my opinion. Not only they extended it to over seven minutes, but stylistically it’s maybe closer to the “Rebellion” EP version of this song, with the keyboards, great dark feeling and with excellent sound quality, etc… all in all, a very good performance on this legendary and so brilliant anthem. I just love that dark atmosphere and killer, memorable riffs in it!

Track list:
1. Controlling To Enslave
2. After The Sepulture-Samael cover
3. Rise From The Abyss And Rejoice
4. Perdition